Stalker jailed

A mobile court in Sundarganj upazila yesterday sentenced a young man to three months' imprisonment for sexually harassing a schoolgirl. The stalker was identified as Shamiul Islam, 25, son of Abdus Samad. Police said Shamiul intercepted a teenage girl while she was on way to a physician's house at Madhya Tarapur village near Sundarganj Bridge. He dragged her to a lonely place in a bid to rape her. Hearing a hue and cry of the girl, locals rushed there and rescued the girl. But the stalker fled the scene. Later, a police team arrested Shamiul and handed him over to a mobile court led by Sundarganj UNO who handed down the punishment.