Guardians want headmaster to quit for 'corruption'

A large number of people including guardians of the students formed a human chain and held a rally in front of Pabna Press Club yesterday demanding removal of the headmaster of Pabna Government Girls' High School for his rampant corruption and irregularities.

At the programme, guardians mentioned 21 counts of corruption and irregularities of headmaster Md Jayadur Rahman.

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Those including embezzlement of Tk 55 thousand through false bill and voucher on November in 2014, admitting a Class III student in exchange of bribe, and  embezzlement of Tk 1.5 lakh received during students' form filling up recently.

"The headmaster is running a coaching centre in the school illegally. He has continued committing corruption and irregularities in the government-run institution for long, much to the disturbance of its academic activities," said Md Masudur Rahman Mintu, guardian of a student, in his written statement at the programme.

Mintu, also a key organiser of the protest rally, alleged that the headmaster sent musclemen to prevent the parents of students from protesting his malpractices.

A few teachers of the school harassed girl students but the headmaster did not take any action as he himself is corrupt, said speakers at the rally.

Among others, Shahid Hasan Baby, Jakir Hossain, journalist Abdul Matin Khan spoke on the occasion.

They demanded removal of the 'corrupt' headmaster.

This correspondent yesterday made several phone calls but the headmaster, who has continued declining to talk to journalists during the last several days, did not receive the calls.

Earlier, the school authorities held half yearly examinations with the same question papers that were used at the model tests of private coaching at the school.

When the journalists went to the school to enquire into the matter on June 15, the headmaster and his men abused the newsmen.