Salim Osman gets bail in teacher assault case

Jatiya Party lawmaker AKM Salim Osman today secured bail from a Dhaka court after he moved a bail plea in a case filed over assaulting a Narayanganj school teacher.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Jesmin Ara Begum granted the permanent bail to Osman after hearing and set July 4 the date for the charge framing hearing in this case.

In May last year, a video clip of Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, the headmaster of Piyar Sattar Latif High School in Narayanganj, doing squats holding his ears and being humiliated in the presence of Salim went viral on the social media.

The management of the school forced Shyamal to resign on an unproven allegation that he had hurt "religious sentiments" of Muslims.

But a probe committee of education ministry found the allegation false and he was reinstated as headmaster of the school.

Following an HC order, a judicial inquiry was carried out into the matter which also concluded that the allegation was false.

It also found that Shyamal was beaten up and forced to do squats holding his ears.

Upon receiving the report, the HC directed the chief judicial magistrate of Narayanganj to immediately transfer the general diary lodged for public humiliation of the headmaster to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka.

Source: thedailystar