HC extends time to submit probe report
The High Court yesterday gave time till January 19 to the chief metropolitan magistrate (CMM) in Dhaka for submitting the probe report before it on the public humiliation of Narayanganj school teacher Shyamal Kanti Bhakta in May last year.
Deputy Attorney General Motaher Hossain Sazu prayed for two weeks' time for submission of the probe report.
Earlier on August 10 last year, the HC in a suo moto rule ordered the CMM of Dhaka to investigate the incident of the head teacher and submit the report before it by November 3.
The probe is at the final stage, as the CMM has already recorded statements from 27 witnesses of the incident of humiliation of Shyamal, the deputy attorney general told The Daily Star.
In May last year, a video clip went viral on the social media, showing how the headmaster of Piyar Sattar Latif High School in Narayanganj was forced to squat holding his ears in the presence of local Jatiya Party lawmaker AKM Salim Osman.
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