Procession, Roadblock in Gaibandha
Students enforce hartal for release of teacher
Students of Dharmapur Abdul Jabber Degree College yesterday enforced a dawn-to-dusk hartal at Dharmapur Bazar and blocked Gaibandha-Sundarganj road demanding unconditional release of the college's vice-principal.
The agitating students blocked the road by placing logs. Vehicular movement on the road remained halted during hartal hours, causing immense sufferings to the passengers. Schools, colleges, shops and banks at Dharmapur Bazar were also closed.
The students took out a procession and paraded the bazar and its adjacent areas demanding immediate release of their teacher Mahbuber Rahman Bablu. Local people also joined the procession.
Detective branch of police arrested Vice-Principal Mahbuber Rahman Bablu on September 15, suspecting his involvement in rape and murder of a girl.
Police recovered the decomposed body of the girl, Fency Begum, 8, daughter of Firoz Mia of Kalirkhamar village in the upazila, from a septic tank on the college campus on September 8.
Police quoted case statement as saying that Fency went to a union parishad office near Dhamapur Bazar on September 4 to see the distribution of rice under VGF programme and since then she remained missing.
According to autopsy report, Fency was strangled after rape. After the incident, the criminals dumped the body into the septic tank, police said.
Students of the college said Vice-Principal Mahbuber Rahman Bablu was in no way involved in the rape and murder of the girl. “Law enforcers are trying to implicate our teacher in a false case. He is innocent. We demand his unconditional release,” they said.
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