Teacher Shyamal Kanti gets bail

Staff Correspondent, Narayanganj: A court in Narayanganj has granted bail to teacher Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, who was humiliated in public in the presence of a lawmaker, in a case filed for taking bribe.

Judge of Narayanganj District and Sessions Judge Court Syed Enayet Hossain granted the bail on Wednesday noon.

Earlier last week, Additional Chief judicial Magistrate Ashok Kumar Dutta ordered to send Shyamal Kanti Bhakta to jail after rejecting his bail petition.

Shyamal Kanti, the headmaster of Piyar Sattar Latif High School, surrendered before it seeking bail following an arrest warrant against him. 

The case was filed on charges of taking bribe from a female teacher with false promises of enlisting her in the monthly pay order (MPO) system.

Morsheda Begum, an English teacher of Piyar Sattar Latif High School in Bandar area, filed the case alleging that she had bribed the headmaster Tk 1.35 lakh.

Shyamal was physically assaulted by a mob over allegations that he made derogatory comments about religion while meting out corporal punishment to a student.

Salim Osman, Jatiya Party lawmaker from Narayanganj-5, was then seen making Shyamal hold his ears and do squats in public, sparking outrage across the country.

The High Court directed the district administration to resubmit three reports, specifying steps taken so far against the perpetrators responsible for humiliating Shyamal.



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