A mobile court yesterday awarded three months’ jail term to a caretaker of a residential building in the city’s Banashri Housing Project on charges of stalking a female tenant of the house.
It also ordered police to produce another caretaker before a judicial magistrate’s court on the same charges.
Executive Magistrate Al Amin told The Daily Star that he gave the punishment to caretaker Nur Uddin, 48, as he admitted to the accusation against him and sent Mohammad Sohel, 26, to the judicial magistrate’s court for his denial of the allegation.
The mobile court was set up at the Banashri house in the morning in presence of officials from Rapid Action Battalion and Banashri Police Outpost under Rampura Police Station, he said.
Sohel will have to prove his innocence before the court, the magistrate added.
Earlier, a complaint was filed with the office of Dhaka district deputy commissioner (DC), accusing the caretakers of stalking. The 28-year-old complainant in her statement said Nur Uddin and his cousin Sohel have been stalking her for the last several months. She also brought accusation of making advances against them.
She is an employee of a local beauty parlour and lives along with her two children in the building as her husband stays in Khulna, the statement reads.
Sub-Inspector Saiful Islam of the police outpost said he handed over both Nuruddin and Sohel to Rampura Police Station, acting in line with the magistrate’s order.
Saidur Rahman, officer-in-charge of the police station, said they sent Nur Uddin to jail and Sohel to a judicial magistrate’s court.
Meanwhile, a stalker was caught red handed yesterday at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) for stalking a female student of the university in Sylhet.
Stalker Fakhrul Islam, a student of BBA department of Sylhet Metropolitan University was brought to the proctor office.
Later, the girl, a student of Bangla department, submitted a written complaint against the stalker to the proctorial body of SUST.
The body handed over the stalker to Sylhet Kotwali Thana police at 8:00pm.
Witnesses said the female student was crying loudly at 4:30pm at the centre of Academic building when Fakhrul Islam was stalking her.
Zaheer Been Alam, head of CEE department, reached the spot from Academic building and saved her.
Dr Nazia Chowdhury, provost of First Female Hall, also went to the spot and caught the stalker there.
“Legal action will be taken against the stalker,” said Sub-Inspector Abdul Latif of Sylhet Kotwali Thana.
