<i>Schoolteachers sued for snatching</i>

26 September 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Nilphamari

Two schoolteachers have been sued under Speedy Trial Act on charge of snatching valuables from a woman in Kishoreganj upazila of Nilphamari district on Thursday night. Sathi Begum, daughter of Sabul Islam of Musha village of the upazila, got down at Taraganj bus stand and hired a rickshaw on Thursday afternoon as she was going to her parents' home from her in-laws' house at Kurigram, police and victim's family sources said. In the evening when the rickshaw reached Dharmoduar on Taraganj-Kishoreganj road, two persons on a motorbike stopped the rickshaw and snatched her necklace, a gold chain, two finger rings, two earrings and Tk 2500, they said. The estimated value of the snatched items would be about Tk 86 thousand. Hearing scream, local people rushed to the spot but the accused managed to speed away. However, locals identified the two culprits as Toolip, a teacher of Kishoreganj Shishu Niketon School, and Liton, a teacher of a local primary school. The victim's husband Akkas Ali filed a case with Kishoreganj Police Station on the night accusing Toolip and Liton under Speedy Trial Act. Sub-inspector Rawshon Ali of Kishoreganj Police Station, also investigating officer of the case, said police started drives to arrest the two accused who went into hiding after the incident. Toolip was also arrested a year ago on charge of mugging, said a few of his colleagues. The two teachers could not be contacted for comments in this connection.