Principal Husne Ara, Bashundhara branch in-charge relieved of charge
The family of the Viqarunnissa Noon School and College student who was raped by Parimal Jayadhar, a teacher of the institution’s Bashundhara branch who was sacked and arrested, will file a petition to the court against the charge sheet the police submitted to the metropolitan magistrate’s court on August 14.
The police submitted a charge sheet against Parimal, who was arrested for raping the girl in his coaching centre at Badda in the capital on May 28.
The police also recommended acquittal of the institution’s principal Husne Ara and the Bashundhara branch chief Lutfor Rahman saying that the charges brought against them could not be proved.
Source close to the victim’s family said that they would submit a petition with the court against the charge sheet as Husne Ara and Lutfor were relived of the charges.
Badda police inspector SM Shahadat Hossain, who is investigating the case, submitted the charge sheet.
The charge sheet was later transferred to the Women and Children Repression (Prevention) Tribunal 4 for the hearing in the acceptability of the charge, a court official said.
Public prosecutor M Forkan Mia concerned to the tribunal told New Age, ‘The judge is likely to set a date on Sunday for further proceeding in the case.’
On July 6, the Detective Branch arrested Parimal after the victim’s father had filed a case with the Badda police, accusing the teacher.
Husne Ara and Lutfor were accused of damaging the evidence of the crime, intimidating the victim by threatening her with the cancellation of her studentship in case she made the incident public.
Viqarunnisa’s governing body later had removed Husne Ara and Lutfor from their positions in the face of protests by the students of the institution and their guardians.
In the complaint, the victim father said that Parimal, who runs a coaching centre at his house at Badda, had molested his daughter on May 28.
As she went to the coaching centre in the morning, Parimal told her to go to another room, the complainant said, adding he locked the door and sexually assaulted her.
-With New Age input
