Doctor jailed ‘for harassing patient’

A doctor was arrested in Sylhet on Monday night, hours after he was confined to his chamber by locals, allegedly for sexually harassing a teenage patient.

The girl that night filed a case, and the doctor was sent to jail the next day by Sylhet court.

However, the doctor -- Jobayer Ahmed, a general practitioner of Dr Jobayer Medicare and Pathology Centre in Beanibazar upazila.-- and his family say some influential locals have framed him, and they will continue the legal fight.

Citing the case statement, Beanibazar Police Station's Officer-in-charge Abani Shankar said, "The teenage girl went to the doctor's chamber on Monday when the doctor sexually harassed her and she ran out screaming".

"We reached the spot at around 8:30pm and saw that many people confined the doctor. We arrested him as the patient filed a case the next day," he said.

That night, Dr Jobayer posted on his Facebook saying he was being framed by a group of locals who had previously attacked him.

In 2018, Dr Jobayer had written on social media about an illegal abortion syndicate in the area run by a family planning inspector, as well as medical malpractices. Following that, his chamber was vandalised and he was forced to keep his practice closed down for a few months, according to local media reports at the time.