Teacher held for molesting student in Bogura

An assistant teacher was arrested yesterday afternoon for allegedly molesting a 12-year-old female student during a class in Bogura’s Shajahanpur.

The accused, Abdul Majid, a maths teacher in RRMU High School in the upazila, was held from the district’s Sherpur upazila, said police.

The arrest came hours after the girl’s father filed a case with Shajahanpur Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.

According to the case statement, Abdul Majid, 50, molested the girl on July 27 when she was sitting in the first row during a maths class at the school.

Following the incident, the girl’s mother submitted a written complaint against him to the school’s headmaster, it said.

Contacted, Jamal Uddin Khandakar, the headteacher, said their primary enquiry found Abdul Majid guilty. Based on that, the accused teacher was suspended.

Jamal also said the victim was not their student. She had failed in her primary terminal exams and was allowed to attend classes at the request of her parents.

Azim Uddin, officer-in-charge of Shajahanpur Police Station, said a district court sent the accused to jail yesterday.