A police constable in Bangladesh was once arrested for harassing a lady professor at a non-public faculty for dressed in a bindi.
Dhaka Police Fee stated that administrative motion shall be taken towards the constable (Photograph: Record | Consultant)
A police constable has been arrested in Bangladesh for harassing and perilous to kill a lady professor of a non-public faculty for dressed in a bindi, police stated on Monday.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) stated Constable Nazmul Tarek has been charged with harassing, abusing and bodily attacking Prof Lota Sumaddaer, a theatre and media research lecturer at Tejgaon School in Dhaka, Bdnew24.com reported.
“The constable is known as Nazmul Tareque,” Biplob Kumar Sarkar, deputy commissioner of the Tejgaon Department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, was once quoted as announcing through the scoop portal.
“Our investigation discovered that he was once concerned within the incident,” he added.
Dhaka Police Commissioner Mohammad Shafiqul Islam stated that administrative motion could be taken towards the constable, who pressured the professor for dressed in a bindi – an ornamental mark implemented at the brow through girls within the Indian subcontinent.
The professor had previous in her criticism advised the police that she were feeling unsafe because the “guy within the uniform” had attempted to run her over along with his motorbike when she protested his verbal abuse.
She then stored herself through temporarily transferring apart, however sustained some accidents as she fell in the street.
In the meantime, the incident has sparked a number of protests all the way through the rustic, with a number of organisations demonstrating and significant that the police group of workers be delivered to justice.
“The place within the charter of Bangladesh or wherein regulation does it say {that a} lady can not put on a teep?” lawmaker and famend actor Suborna Mustafa stated on Sunday whilst slamming the incident.
Mustafa, in her deal with to the parliament, demanded motion towards the accused policeman to make certain that such incidents don’t happen in long term.
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