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Bail extended for Shyamal Kanti

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Published: 12:51, 20 July 2017   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
Bail extended for Shyamal Kanti

Narayanganj Correspondent: A Narayanganj court has extended bail term for schoolteacher Shyamal Kanti Bhakta till pressing charge sheet in a bribery case filed against him.

Judge Hosne Ara Begum of Narayanganj District and Sessions Judge Court passed the order after Shyamal Kanti produced before the court on Thursday noon.

After securing extended bail term, Shyamal Kanti claimed the case as false and baseless.

He told the reporters at the court premises that he was sued in the false case to conceal the incident of humiliation by the local lawmaker.

He also expressed his fear over the security and expected fair justice to the government in the case.

Shakhawat Hossain Khan, lawyer of Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, said the court extended the bail term after hearing in the case.

He also hoped Shyamal Kanti will get fair justice in the case.

Morsheda Begum, an English teacher of Piyar Sattar Latif High School in Bandar area, filed the case against the headmaster Shyamal Kanti on July 14 last year.

According to the case statement, Shyamal took Tk 1.35 lakh in bribe from Morsheda, making a false promise of having her included in the monthly pay order (MPO) system.

On April 17 this year, police submitted a charge sheet to the court against Shyamal.

On May 13 last year, Shyamal was forced to do squats holding his ears in presence of local lawmaker Salim Osman over an allegation that the headmaster made derogatory comments about religion while meting out corporal punishment to a student.

But the teacher has been rejecting the allegation.

A few days after the incident, the school's managing committee forced Shyamal to step down over the allegation that he had hurt “religious sentiments” of Muslims.

But an education ministry probe found the allegation false, and Shyamal was reinstated as headmaster.


risingbd/Narayanganj/July 20, 2017/Hassan Ul-Rakib/A K Azad

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