Principal held for damaging Shaheed Minar
Police yesterday arrested a madrasa principal from the Supreme Court premises few minutes after a High Court bench ordered for his arrest on charges of damaging a Shaheed Minar on February 21in Mymensingh.
Earlier during hearing a rule, the HC bench directed Officer-in-Charge of Gafargaon Police Station Omar Faruk to arrest Md Abu Taleb, principal of Chairbaria Fazil Madrasa at Gafargaon, and to implicate him with sedition charge.
OC Faruk and Principal Abu Taleb appeared before the HC bench yesterday morning as per its earlier order.
An HC bench, however, exonerated the OC from the charges of negligence in taking action against Taleb, as he (OC) told the court that he had already filed a criminal case against Taleb.
The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Selim said Taleb had hurt the people's feelings for the independence and Liberation War of the country by damaging the Shaheed Minar.
Justice Manik said Taleb should be sent to Pakistan due to his anti-liberation attitude.
On February 22, the HC bench summoned the OC and the principal to appear before it yesterday following a report published in the Bangla daily Prothom Alo.
The report said the principal damaged a Shaheed Minar built on the madrasa premises on February 21.
Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain had placed the report before the HC judges on February 22.
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