Rajshahi University authorities have suspended the four-year increment of a teacher, and also his promotion, for harassing sexually and mentally two students of the university’s Institute of Education and Research (IER). The decision was taken against Assistant Professor Bishnu Kumar Adhikari at the university’s 514th Syndicate meeting chaired by Vice-Chancellor Prof Golam Sabbir Sattar yesterday
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Social commitment must to combat sexual harassment against girls
Social commitment along with forging resistance has become indispensable to combat sexual harassment against the girl students. Public representatives, parents, civil society, community and media should work together for preventing sexual harassment,
3 univ students jailed for sexual harassment
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday sentenced three private university students to two years’ imprisonment for blackmailing a schoolgirl by capturing indecent video. The convicted, Parvez Sarkar, 20, BBA student of South East University, Mahbub Hasan Mohobbot, 20, and Udoy Sarma Utso, 20, BBA students of American International University of Bangladesh
6.6pc boys, 15.3 percent girls face sexual harassment
Reveals study Around 6.6 percent boys and 15.3 percent girls of the country experience different forms of sexual harassment by their friends, relatives, teachers, and familiar persons, a study finds. Although the incidents of harassment including rape and different penetrative and non-penetrative acts seldom come to light, the academic progresses of the abused children are ... Read more
Sexual Harassment
Police arrested Shihab Uddin, acting headmaster of Chadaha Keonchia High School in Satkania upazila of Chittagong, on Sunday night on allegations of sexually harassing a female student of class ten. The student gave a written complaint to the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) on July 27 to take action against the teacher for harassing her sexually ... Read more
Viqarunnisa students hailed for protests
People from different walks of life on Friday demanded exemplary punishment of Parimal Jayadhar, a teacher at Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, arrested on charge of sexual harassment of a student. Speakers at a protest rally also demanded action against the institution’s authorities for allegedly trying to suppress the incident
Headmaster jailed for sexual harassment of student
A mobile court sentenced the headmaster of a high school in Ishwardi to four months in jail on Sunday on charge of sexual harassment of a student. But a section of students of Basherbanda Bohumukhi High School and locals staged demonstrations in protest at the punishment of the headmaster, Shamsul Islam insisting that the charge ... Read more
Sacked Viqarunnisa teacher on 5-day remand
Police have got five days to question Viqarunnisa Noon School and College teacher Parimal Joydhar for sexually abusing a 10th grade girl student. Magistrate Shamima Parvin of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court on Thursday granted the remand upon an appeal for 10 days from Badda Police Station inspector
Culprit caught
Sexual Assault Culprit caught Victim mum, father in hospital, mother falls sick The sacked teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College Porimol Joydhor was arrested in Keraniganj just outside the capital yesterday for allegedly molesting a class X student. Detective Branch of police (South) picked him a day after the victim’s father filed a case ... Read more
Sexual assault charges rock leading school
One teacher fired, 2 others suspended Viqarunnisa Noon School and College authorities yesterday fired a teacher of its Bashundhara branch on allegation of molesting a class X student. Porimol Joydhor, the sacked teacher of Bangla department, went into hiding after the alleged assault. Of the same campus, two other teachers — Barun Chandra Barman of ... Read more
No move yet to implement HC directives on stalking
The police have taken no initiative to comply with an order of the High Court, given five months ago, that requires every thana to form a separate team of officers to deal with complaints of sexual harassment. The government has also failed to amend the Nari-O-Shishu Nirjatan Daman Ain 2000 which the court ordered it ... Read more
One in five women sexually harassed in China: Survey
One in five women has experienced sexual harassment at work in China, a survey has found. The poll found that 20 per cent of the 1,837 participants from 10 enterprises in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Hebei provinces and Beijing had been sexual harassment victims. The definition of sexual
RU teacher fired on harassment charges
A Rajshahi University theatre and music department part-time teacher on Wednesday was dismissed from his job on charges of sexual harassment of a student. RU academic council on Tuesday at a meeting took the decision after examining the complaints brought against him few days earlier by more than forty female students of the