Sexual harassment: SC orders AUST teacher to surrender

The Supreme Court today ordered Mahfuzur Rashid Ferdous, a teacher of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology (AUST) in Dhaka, to surrender before a lower court in a case filed over sexual harassment.

The apex court said the trial court will issue arrest warrant against Ferdous if he does not surrender in a week after receiving its order, Deputy Attorney General Khandaker Diliruzzaman told The Daily Star.

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A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, passed the order after hearing a petition filed by the government seeking stay on a High Court order that granted bail to Ferdous in the case.

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In the petition, the government also prayed to the SC to order the trial court to issue arrest warrant against him in the case.

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On May 4, Ferdous was arrested from his Eskaton apartment following a case filed by an AUST alumnus on charge of sexually harassing some of his female students at different times. Later, he made a confessional statement before a Dhaka court.

Earlier, the HC granted bail to him in this case following a bail petition filed by Ferdous.