Charge pressed against principal for abusing Nusrat

A Feni court on Wednesday took cognisance of charges against SM Sonagazi Islamia Senior Fazil Madrassah principal Sirajuddoula in a case filed for sexually harassing student Nusrat Jahan Rafi before burning her to death.

Senior judicial magistrate Zakir Hossain accepted a charge sheet after inspector Shah Alam of the Police Bureau of Investigation, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted it to the court.

The court also posted for today the hearing in the framing of charges in the case.

The bureau submitted the 271-page charge sheet 98 days into the sexual harassment of the madrassah girl naming 29 witnesses.

On March 27, Sirajuddoula allegedly sexually harassed Nusrat in his office. Her mother filed the case against the principal on the following day.

On April 6, Nusrat was set afire allegedly by people loyal to the principal after he was arrested and subsequently suspended following the filing of the case.

She lost her battle for life on April 10 at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Meanwhile, Nurul Amin, an office assistant of the madrasa, testified before the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on Wednesday in the murder case filed over the killing of the madrasa girl.

Judge Mamunur Rashid of the tribunal also fixed Thursday for recording the testimony of madrassah guard Mostafa.

All the 16 accused in the case were produced before the court around 11:00am amid tight security.

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