Five people were jailed for varying terms on charges of harassing girls in Sylhet and Nilphamari on Saturday and Sunday.
The New Age correspondent in Sylhet said two young men were jailed by a mobile court in the district for harassing schoolgirls.
The convicted are rickshaw-puller Shahjahan, 26, of Ghasitola and Shahed Ahmad, 16, of Laladighir Par in the city.
The mobile court, led by executive magistrate Iqbal Hosen, jailed Shahjahan for two months and fined him Tk 500. The mobile court jailed Shahed Ahmad for a month and fined him Tk 1,000. They will need to serve 15 more days in jail in case they fail to pay the fine, sources in the mobile court said.
Sources in the Ambarkhana Girls’ School and College said Shahjahan made abusive comments at some Class IV students on Sunday.
In the other incident in the city, Shahed Ahmad was jailed by the mobile court on charges of harassing a Class VII student of the PDB High School at Bagbari for about a year.
On her complaint, the school authorities along with the local ward councillor, Saleh Ahmad, detained Shahed on Sunday morning when he was harassing the girl, sources in the school said.
The correspondent in Nilphamari said three young men were jailed for varying terms on charges of harassing schoolgirls on Saturday.
The Saidpur upazila nirbahi officer, Sabina Alam, jailed Alamgir Hossain for a month and Afzal Hossain Munna and Nur Ameen for 15 days. They were sent to jail.
The police said Alamgir had harassed a Class VI for long. The three had made abusive remarks about the girl when she was going to Saidpur in a bus.
