Porimol files petition to withdraw confessional statement
Porimol Joydhor, the sacked teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College, yesterday filed a petition with a Dhaka court for withdrawing his confessional statement in the case filed against him for allegedly molesting a student.
The accused was produced before the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, which rejected his bail prayer.
Porimol in his petition claimed the investigation officer (IO) of the case tortured him inhumanly to extract a confession.
During the five-day custodial remand, the IO took him to a desolate place at Balur Math in the city's Bashundhara and pressed him for the statement, he said.
The IO even threatened to kill him in 'crossfire', mentioned Porimol adding, the charge brought against him was false, fabricated and concocted and he was implicated in the case under a conspiracy to harass him.
He was arrested on July 6 from Keraniganj just outside the capital for allegedly violating the class X student of Viqarunnisa's Bashundhara branch at his Badda coaching centre on May 28.
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