Supervisor suspended

The supervisor-in-charge of Gazipur Juvenile Development Centre has been suspended following some adolescents' protest by self-gashing different parts of their body against its mismanagement.
Aged between 14 and 18, some 20 boys inflicted severe wounds on themselves to protest the torture by its supervisor-in-charge Anwarul Kabir on Tuesday night.
The social welfare department suspended Anwarul on Thursday night for abusing the adolescents, Shahnawaz Dilruba Khan, additional deputy commissioner (general) in Gazipur, confirmed The Daily Star yesterday.
The suspension order came hours after the High Court formed a three-member committee and asked it to confirm in a week as to who were responsible for the torture at the correction centre.
It also directed the authorities to explain in two weeks why their negligence in stopping the torture on those teenagers should not be declared illegal, and why they should not be directed to take steps to address the matter.
The secretaries of social welfare, and women and children affairs ministries, DG of the social welfare department, deputy inspector general of prisons, the DC and the SP of Gazipur and superintendent of the correction centre have been made respondents to the rule.
As part of the investigation, Deputy Commissioner of Gazipur Nurul Islam and Superintendent of Police Abdul Baten, who are among the probe body members, visited the centre yesterday morning.
Besides, the district administration has formed a committee of five members headed by ADC Shahnawaz to investigate the matter and submit a report within the next seven working days.
Shahnawaz visited the centre on Thursday afternoon.
Quoting the inmates, she said the centre authorities had assaulted the boys and also mentally tortured them for not complying with the rules.
“They found no other way to protest. They want removal of the supervisor-in-charge,” Shahnawaz said.
The injured were rushed to Tongi Government Hospital where their    wounds were stitched up. They are now at the centre.