Assault on Teacher
HC orders Barisal AL leader's arrest
The High Court yesterday directed police to immediately arrest Liton Pandey, a local Awami League leader of Ujirpur in Barisal, and to produce him before it on November 21 in connection with torturing a schoolteacher.
On October 21, a Bangla daily published a report saying Liton and his men attacked Anath Bandhu Halder, headmaster of Natharkandi High School at Ujirpur, and hung a ring of shoes from his neck on October 19, as the headmaster did not commit irregularities to help Liton acquire a post of a clerk at the school.
During hearing a rule, the court passed the order to arrest Liton, as he did not appear before it yesterday as per its October 31 order.
The HC bench of Justice Mirza Hussain and Justice Kazi Ejarul Haque also ordered Ujirpur police officer-in-charge to appear before it on November 21.
Following a writ petition, submitted by Supreme Court lawyer Manzill Murshid on behalf of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh, the HC on October 31 issued a rule upon the government to explain why its inaction to take appropriate legal action against the people responsible for assaulting the headmaster should not be declared illegal.
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