Judge allegedly forced a mother to touch her feet and beg forgiveness
Hundreds of Bogura Government Girls' High School students demonstrated in front of the school, protesting against a judge for allegedly forcing a student's mother to touch her feet and beg forgiveness.
Blocking the Bogura Circuit House Road, they protested from 3:00pm to 8:30pm.
The daughter of a judge of Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court of Bogura is an eighth grader of the school, reports our Bogura correspondent.
According to school rules, all students are supposed to clean their classrooms by turns, but the judge's daughter never did even though Monday was her turns along with three other students. As she refused to sweep the classroom, the other three students declined in protest, said students of the school.
On Monday night, the judge's daughter allegedly took to social media and wrote a post stating that since she is the daughter of a judge, she is above the rules, the students told this correspondent.
The teachers of the school corroborated the content of the post.
Three of her classmates took screenshots of her post and shared it in their Facebook group.
The judge went to the school yesterday morning and asked the class teacher to call in the three students and their parents.
When the three students came to the school, the judge threatened to file a cybercrime case against them, claiming that they wrote "derogatory words" on Facebook insulting her and her daughter. Headmistress Rabeya Khatun and other class teachers were present there, alleged the students.
They also alleged that the judge compelled one of the student's mother to beg pardon.
Meanwhile, the agitated students also alleged that the headmistress discriminated them.
Denying all the allegations, the headmistress said, "All girls are equal to me. As there is only one cleaner at the school, the students have to clean the classrooms themselves."
Around 8:00pm, Saiful Islam, deputy commissioner of Bogura, went to the school and listened to the student's allegations and told the headmistress, "You can't make a parent beg pardon from another guardian. I accept this failure as the school president. If anyone insults a child or a parent here, it is an insult to me too. My daughter also studies at this school."
The DC formed a three-member committee to probe the incident.
He assured the students that the district judge would take action against the additional judge.
"I already informed my higher authorities of the matter. The High Court and the law ministry already knew this incident. The district judge told me that a departmental action is underway against the judge," he said.
The Daily Star could not reach the additional district and sessions judge for comments.
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