Sexual Harassment
Kindergarten teacher jailed
A mobile court yesterday sentenced a teacher six-months of imprisonment on charge of sexually harassing two 11-year old female students at a school in city’s Jurain.
It was the first time a person was convicted for committing such offence by a mobile court in Dhaka.
Nazrul Islam, a teacher at Alor Mela Ideal School at Jurain was sentenced on charge of sexually abusing two of his female students of classes four and five, Executive Magistrate Mohammad Al-Amin told The Daily Star.
The victims approached the mobile court with their complaint against the teacher who had sexually assaulted them on several occasions during private coaching classes, he said.
A team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) along with teachers of the school and several locals held the accused teacher who confessed to his guilt after the allegations against him were read out at the court, said the magistrate.
The court was held inside the school premises at 6:30pm.
Amid the recent wave of sexual harassments and stalking, a gazette notification was issued yesterday to bring this court into effect empowering the executive magistrates to try assaulters. This has been done by incorporating Section 509 of the Penal Code into the rules of the Mobile Court Act 2009.
The government amended the Mobile Court Act for the 93rd time to add the section.
The amendment has been brought about to rein in the alarmingly rising trend of stalking across the country.
Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder told reporters that the mobile courts will conduct drives in the areas most prone to such offences.
Earlier, the government decided to operate mobile courts in every district against stalking of females that recently caused deaths to a number of people all over the country.
