Schoolteacher files GD for security

A teacher of Kumrihat SC High School in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila on Saturday filed a general diary (GD) with Aditmari Police Station, seeking protection after harassment and threat allegedly by the school’s headmaster and his men.

“Kamrul Islam, headmaster of the school, got dissatisfied with me as I declined to give bribe of Tk 8 lakh that he demanded in the name of expenditure for inclusion of my job in the government’s MPO (Monthly Payment Order),” said the teacher, Manowarul Islam, in the GD.

“The headmaster, who has been trying to make me quit my job, withheld my salary for two months. He is also preventing me from going to school.  Anonymous callers from different mobile numbers are giving death threat to me,” he complained.

Manowarul, son of marginal farmer Mainul Islam of Dulali village of Kaliganj upazila, was appointed as a mathematics teacher at Kumrihat SC High School in 2016. Later in September 2019 his post was listed with MPO. He also got salary from the government’s coffers for September and October in last year.

Contacted, headmaster Kamrul Islam got furious and said he did not want to talk to journalists in this regard.

Aditmari Police Station OC Saiful Islam said the police will take legal action after investigation regarding the GD.