Jubo League leader arrested for assaulting schoolteacher

A Jubo League leader was arrested last night in Jashore on charges of assaulting a primary school teacher in front of her students and leaving her seriously injured.

Mizanur Rahman Mizan, president of ward-4 Jubo League, was accused in a case filed by the teacher's brother with Manirampur Police Station on Wednesday night.

According to the complaint, Mizan's son, who is a third grader at Durgapur Government Primary School, went to the teacher's bathroom on Wednesday, said Moniruzzaman, officer-in-charge of the police station.

After the teacher noticed it and made the boy return to the classroom, he went home and told his father about the incident.

Soon afterwards, Mizan along with four or five others went to the classroom where the teacher was taking a class and assaulted her in front of the students, according to the complaint.

Mizan and the men kept hitting her even after she fell to the floor of the classroom, it said.

He then dragged her to the school playground and continued to assault her until other teachers rushed to the scene and rescued her, it added.

Moniruzzaman said the teacher admitted to a hospital with serious injuries.

Mizan told The Daily Star he only had an argument with the teacher and refuted the allegations of assault.

Contacted, Education Officer Ismat Ara Parveen said: "We informed the matter to the higher authorities and requested necessary measures for ensuring justice."