Humiliation of Narayanganj teacher: Jatiya Party lawmaker Salim Osman surrenders before Dhaka court
He asked to appear before court again May 23
A Dhaka court today asked Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker AKM Salim Osman to appear before it on May 23 after he surrendered in a case filed over an assault on Narayanganj school teacher Shyamal Kanti Bhakta.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Jesmin Ara Begum passed the order around 11:00am after Salim Osman surrendered before the court and submitted a bail petition.
The court did not hear the petition as he is on a 15-day bail given by the High Court.
The same court on March 29 issued asked Salim to appear before it today after Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sheikh Hafizur Rhman submitted a judicial probe report in the case.
In the second week of May last year, a video clip went viral on the social media, showing how the headmaster of Piyar Sattar Latif High School in Narayanganj was humiliated and forced to squat holding his ears in the presence of local Jatiya Party lawmaker AKM Salim Osman.
After the incident, Shyamal told police that somebody on May 13 announced through a mike at the nearby mosque, that he had made an objectionable comment about Islam, at the time when the school's managing committee was holding a meeting.
Within sometime, angry locals thronged the school, according to the police report.
“Some unknown angry people assaulted me. People of the managing committee tried to pacify them,” Shyamal said.
When Salim Osman reached the school, angry people were chanting slogans “demanding my trial and that I walk around wearing a garland of shoes.”
He was then asked to squat “to calm them [protestors]”, the headmaster told police.
On May 29, 2016, the education ministry submitted a probe report to the High Court through the attorney general’s office, saying the school's managing committee had forced Shyamal to resign based on an unproven allegation that he hurt religious sentiment of the Muslims.
Relevant rules were not followed in suspending him, the ministry said, recommending that he should be reinstated.
Later, Shyamal was reinstated as headmaster of the school.