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School teacher in jail for sexually harassing minor

Crime 2022-10-27, 12:55pm

Jailed - detained. Human Rights Watch



A school teacher has been remanded in judicial custody by a court in Thakurgaon in connection with the sexual harassment of a minor student.

The accused has been identified as Tula Ram Paul, 38.

SM Jahid Iqbal, officer-in-charge of Ranisankail police station, said they arrested the accused after the girl's father lodged a complaint on Wednesday.

Later, the accused was produced in a Thakurgaon court that sent him to judicial custody.

According to the case statement, the teacher allegedly harassed the girl sexually after taking her to a room at the school on Tuesday morning.

The accused fled when she started screaming. The girl later narrated her ordeal to her parents. - UNB