Staff Reporter :
Just six days after the humiliation of a Headmaster in Narayanganj, another Head teacher of Sutrapur Government Primary School in Savar was physically assaulted by the President and Vice-President of the school managing committee on Wednesday. According to locals and police, Headmistress Fouzia Yeasmin changed her office room on Saturday and was discharging her duties from there. But two other assistant teachers Kaniza Nasima and Akter Hossain opposed her and locked in altercation over the issue since then.
On Wednesday, school managing committee President Mohammad Fazlul Haque and Vice-President Abdul Malek came to the school and asked the Headmistress why she has changed her office room.
As the President and the Vice-President verbally abused her over the issue, the Headmistress protested them. For this, they became furious and raised hands to beat her.
“Being frightened Headmistress Fouzia Yeasmin ran into the school toilet and took shelter there. But the angry school committee leaders dragged her out of the toilet and started beating her,” a police official of Dhamrai thana told The New Nation on Thursday. He added: Two other assistant teachers Kaniza Nasima and Akter Hossain also helped the school committee leaders to beat the Headmistress. Being beaten up by the Fazlul Haque and Abdul Malek, Fouzia Yeasmin fell down on the ground and became unconscious.
Later, the local people rescued the Headmistress from the clutches of the school body leaders and two other assistant teachers. They gave her first aid.
When contacted, Vice-President Abdul Malek told journalists that Fouzia Yeasmin without consulting the managing committee has changed her office room.
He said the Headmistress does not come to school in time as she used to come to the institution from Dhaka everyday. She has not been beaten up, Malek claimed.
Meanwhile, filing of a case against the managing committee President Mohammad Fazlul Haque and Vice-President Abdul Malek and two other assistant teachers is now under process.
“Fouzia Yeasmin, head teacher of the school is now at our police station and she has already lodged a written compliant. After filing of the case, we will start investigation into the matter,” the on duty official of Dhamrai Police Station told The New Nation yesterday evening.
