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<i>Victim of teacher's cruelty still reels from trauma</i>
Class VIII student Rizia Sultana Sathi, who remained unconscious for 22 hours due to beating by her teacher Kamalesh Roy of Noornagar PWD High School in Khulna city on Wednesday, is still reeling from the trauma at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH).
Sathi's father Kazi Rezaul Karim, who works as a peon in Khulna divisional commissioner's office, has appealed to the solvent people of the society to help him bear expenses for medical treatment of his daughter.
As this correspondent met Sathi at Surgery Ward No-3 of KMCH yesterday, the visibly shaken girl said, "Mathematics teacher Kamalesh Roy often misbehaves in the classroom, particularly with female students."
"The same teacher Kamalesh Roy mercilessly beat my son Rakib Hasan two months ago for being late in his class only by ten minutes. Rakib had to undergo medical treatment for over a month to recover from serious injuries in his right hand due to the beating," said a woman requesting anonymity.
She went to KMCH yesterday to see Sathi.
"Kamalesh Sir is a cruel man. He also uses obnoxious to students, no matter male or female," said Tumpa, a classmate of Sathi.
Sathi's father Kazi Rezaul Karim, who filed a case against Kamalesh Roy and Liakat Hossain, headmaster of PWD High School, expressed doubt about any progress in the investigation as the two accused are yet to be arrested.
Asked about the matter, IO of the case, SI Alamgir Kabir said he had raided houses of the accused several times but failed to track them down.
Leaders of Khulna district and city units of Bangladesh Teachers' Association in a press statement yesterday strongly condemned inhuman corporal punishment to Rizia Sultana Sathi.
Woman and Child Rights Watch Team, a wing of NGO Griha Shukhan, has demanded exemplary punishment of the two accused teachers.
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