Recruitment Row: 'AL men' beat up school headmaster
A school headmaster was assaulted allegedly by some Awami League men for refusing to help recruit their candidate as a teacher of Haridev Doyez Uddin High School in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila yesterday.
They also beat up some students as they tried to protect their teacher from the attack.
The headmaster, Manoranjon Roy, 52, who has been teaching at the school for the last 26 years, was undergoing treatment at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital.
Soon after the incident, over 300 students of the school boycotted their classes and held a demonstration, demanding arrest and exemplary punishment of the attackers.
"We will continue our demonstration and class boycott until the arrest of the culprits,” said Shariful Islam, a tenth-grader of the school.
Shah Alam, a teacher of the school, said some eight to 10 attackers, led by AL man Abu Siddique of Haridev village, who was earlier involved in BNP politics, entered the headmaster's room around 10:45am and started beating him up. They had sticks and iron rods.
While talking to this correspondent, Manoranjon said, “Abu Siddique was trying to convince me to recruit one Shirina Akhter as the computer teacher, but I refused several times. So, he became angry."
“Abu Siddique led the attackers when they were beating me mercilessly,” he said with tears in his eyes.
Nurul Huda Mandol, president of the school managing committee, said it was under process to appoint a computer teacher, and 12 candidates already applied for the job.
“Former BNP leader, now a new activist of the ruling Awami League, Abu Siddique was trying to recruit his candidate Shirina Akhter, maybe he took a handsome amount of money from this candidate," he said.
Abu firstly tried to convince me, but failed. He then made an effort to persuade the headmaster to appoint his candidate, but could not be successful there. So, Abu and his men assaulted the headmaster, he added.
Contacted, Shirina said Abu is her relative and she never sought help from him for ensuring her recruitment.
However, this correspondent could not contact Abu for his comment as he went into hiding and his mobile phone was switched-off.
Azmol Haque, resident medical officer at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital, said the headmaster suffered injuries to his eyes, back, head and hands.
Nihar Ranjon Roy, a sub-inspector of the Sadar Police Station, said police raided the attackers' houses, but could not arrest any of them.
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