Minister orders probe in 'rape of teacher' by headmaster

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today ordered an investigation into the incident of a teacher being allegedly raped by the headmaster in Kushtia.

Kushtia Deputy Commissioner Sayed Belal Hossain has been ordered to probe the matter, Minister Nahid told The Daily Star.

“Stern action will be taken against whoever is found guilty,” Nahid said pulling reference to a report ran by The Daily Star in this regard.

Shariful Islam, headmaster of Amrakanon High School in Mujibnagar upazila of Meherpur allegedly raped a female teacher of the school last Friday when the duo were in Kushtia for a teachers’ registration examination.