A schoolteacher of Debhata upazila in Satkhira district was sued on Saturday for beating up a second grade student and his mother with a wooden stick.
The student's mother Sonia Khatun filed the case with Debhata Police Station against Abdul Hannan Babul, 40, an assistant teacher of Chandpur Government Primary School.
The case details say the teacher beat up Sharaban Pervez Siam, 8, son of Sheikh Syed of Chandpur village, over a trivial matter on Thursday morning.
As the boy informed his mother Sonia Khatun, she went to the school and asked the teacher the reason for punishment. Angered at this, the teacher also beat up the student's mother.
Confirming the incident, officer in-charge of the Debhata Police Station Shahjahan Ali Khan told bdnews24.com that there are allegations that the teacher had also beaten up several other students in the past.
The High Court on Jan 13 last year declared physical punishment illegal in the educational institutions of the country.
Defining caning, beating or subjecting students to any cruel and inhuman punishment as 'misconduct' under the Government Servants Discipline and Appeal Rules 1985, it had directed the education ministry to ensure dissemination of the directives and regular inspection to prevent occurrences of corporal punishment.
It also directed the ministry to take actions against those in breach of the law.
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TV actor-director couple Toukir Ahmed and Bipasha Hayat have been sued in the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's Court for allegedly embezzling Tk 1.5 million.
Toukir's sister Tanjin Haider filed the case on Monday.
Metropolitan magistrate Mohammad Shahadat Hossain has taken the plaintiff's testimony and said an order will be passed on the matter later.
Advocate Taimur Alam Khandaker argued the case on behalf of the plaintiff at the hearing. Advocate Zakaria Haider took part in the hearing on behalf of the defendants.
Tanjin said she and her husband formed a company in joint venture with Toukir and Bipasha to build and run the 'Nakkhtrabari Resort and Convention Centre' on 25 bigha land at Rajendrapur, Gazipur. Her husband Syed Ali Haider became the chairman of the company with Toukir its managing director.
Tanjin claimed she and her husband gave Toukir a total Tk 1.5 million in cash and USD 177,422 through bank. She added that she even had to sell her paternal property at Tangail to find the money.
The case accuses Toukir and Bipasha of 'deceitfully' buying land and building the resort under their names. Tanjin alleged that she and her husband were not being allowed to go to the resort and instead were being threatened.
According to case details, Tanjin served a legal notice on Toukir and Bipasha in January this year but the couple did not resolve the issue then.
Seven people have been made witnesses in the case.
Toukir was awarded the National Film Awards in 2004 for his liberation war-based movie 'Jayjatra' in 2004. His wife, Bipasha, is the daughter of another popular Bangladeshi actor Abul Hayat. She won the National Film Award as best actress in the film Aaguner Parashmoni.
Toukir also Daruchini Dwip that won the National Film Awards in seven categories in 2007.
People taking Hajj pilgrimage under government arrangement this year will have to pay Tk 44,398 more than they did last year.
The cabinet on Monday provisionally approved a proposal on the Tk 303440 Hajj package with the additional cost of Tk 18375 for meal.
Cabinet Division secretary Mohammed Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters the rise in cost was due to the devaluation of taka against Us dollar and Saudi rial.