Teacher Shyamal gets bail in bribe case
Published : 31 May 2017, 16:37
A Narayanganj court today granted bail to Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, a schoolteacher who was forced to do squats holding ears in presence of Jatiya Party lawmaker AKM Salim Osman last year, till July 20 in a bribery case.
Narayanganj District and Session Judges Court Judge Syed Enayet Hossain passed the order around noon.
Shyamal, headmaster of Piyar Sattar Latif High School in Narayanganj's Bandar area, secured the bail seven days after he was sent to jail on surrender.
The case was filed by Morsheda Begum, an English teacher at the same school, on July 14 last year.
According to the case statement, the teacher took Tk 1.35 lakh in bribe from Morsheda, making a false promise of having her included in the monthly pay order (MPO) system.
On May 13 last year, Shyamal was assaulted by a mob over allegation that he made derogatory comments about religion while meting out corporal punishment to a student. The teacher has been rejecting the allegation.
A video clip of the incident went viral on social media, triggering a firestorm of protests in the social networking sites and public outrage with a cross section of people demanding trial of Salim Osman and his accomplices.
Source: thedailystar