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22 September 2011, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Unb, Dhaka

After reading newspaper reports of Shimul Nahar Shimul's suicide, the education minister yesterday talked to the deputy commissioner and police super of Habiganj over phone and directed them to arrest her stalker. Shimul, a first year student of Syed Faiz Uddin College at Madhabpur, took poison after being harassed by the alleged stalker Abdul Awal.