Teacher attempts to kidnap girl student
A college teacher allegedly attempted to kidnap a female student on Thursday evening as she repeatedly refused to marry him.
Locals foiled the abduction attempt that left the girl and four other members of her family injured.
The victim is an HSC student at Barobari Shaheed Abul Kashem College where ABM Faruque Siddiki, former vice principal of the college, was temporarily suspended on March 29 this year after he kidnapped the girl on March 4.
Locals rescued the girl from Faruque's house two weeks after the abduction.
The college authorities recommended dismissal of Faruque, also former publication secretary of district BNP. After the incident, he got expelled from the party as well.
“The teacher has been stalking me for a long time but at first I did not dare to protest fearing stigma,” said the victim, a member of minority Hindu community.
“Later when he was adamant to marry me, I informed my parents,” she said, adding, this angered him and he began to insist more strongly.
According to the victim, Faruque along with 20 to 25 local BNP cadres, came to her home at Joyhori village of Barobari and tried to abduct her by force.
The gang injured her parents and two aunts by striking them with sticks as they tried to defend the girl. They managed to drag her out of the house but fled as locals intervened.
Her injured family members are now undergoing treatment at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital.
“I heard that the teacher had been stalking my girl but could not protest as he was a muscleman of BNP,” said the girl's father, adding, they were afraid to file a case against Faruque after he abducted his daughter in March.
Locals said Faruque, father of two sons and a local of Barobari village, married his current wife also by forcefully abducting her.
“What can we do? We can neither file a case nor leave the village. Faruque and his associates are vicious. We can do nothing but cry,” said father of the ill-fated girl, hopelessly.
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