Former and current students of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College and their guardians yesterday formed a human chain in front of the institution on Bailey Road, demanding exemplary punishment to sacked teacher Porimol Joydhor for allegedly molesting a student.
They also chanted slogans calling for the authorities to withdraw the principal of the institution's Bashundhara branch for "helping the culprits and destroying the evidence".
Meanwhile, Porimol, who is now on a five-day remand, has not yet confessed to the molestation charges.
Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Badda Police Station, told The Daily Star, "Since Porimol did not admit the crime, we are trying to gather evidence. But we could not yet collect the video footages he shot through his cellphone.
"We have yet to verify Porimol's statements, as the victim has left the country for treatment."
The victim, a class X student at Viqarunnisa's Bashundhara branch, went to Singapore for treatment on Thursday night.
According to her written complaint to the school authorities, Porimol, a Bangla teacher, sexually assaulted her for the first time on May 28 and again on June 17 when she went to the coaching centre at his house in Badda.
Meanwhile, guardians of students at different schools and colleges in the capital yesterday urged the government to take immediate measures against sexual harassment of female students at the educational institutions.
At a press conference at the National Press Club, Ziaul Kabir Dulu, president of "Obhibhabok Oikya Forum", a platform of guardians, alleged that some corrupt teachers force the students to go to their coaching centres for ill purposes.
"They are not only pocketing money illegally but also harassing the girls sexually," he added.
Source : The Daily Star
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