50 Sylhet Cadet College students try to flee to avoid 'torture'
A group of students of Sylhet Cadet College fled away to avoid 'severe corporal punishment' but teachers with the help of police captured them at Khasdabir on Osmany International Airport Road and took them back to the campus on Saturday night.
Several teachers along with police captured 50 fleeing students of the college at Khasdabir on Osmany International Airport Road, some four kilometre away from students' dormitory, and took them back to the campus at 9:30pm, locals said.
Aggrieved students alleged that they finally attempted to flee the campus as section of teachers led by a Major were unleashing inhuman physical torture on them for the last few days.
Some of the students showed to media men and locals marks of physical wounds allegedly inflicted by teachers and also video footage of physical torture that they had secretly recorded in mobile.
Requesting anonymity, one of the students alleged that the Major woke them up at 3:00am on Friday night and mercilessly beat them up.
"On information, I went to Khasdabir on Friday night and heard about physical punishment by the teachers from aggrieved students of the cadet college," Farhad Chowdhuri, councillor of Sylhet City Corporation's ward No 6, told UNB.
Angered at the disclosure of the torture, teachers threatened to further punish the 50 students after taking them back to the campus, he added.
When contacted, the principal of the cadet college declined to talk to the media about the matter.
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