Rab, police told to take action against accused VNSC teachers

Sayeed Muhammad of DOT : Education ministry has wrote to Rab and police to take legal steps against three teachers of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College over the suicide of a class nine student that caused outrage for the last three days.
The letters were sent to director general of Rab and DMP commissioner yesterday afternoon, reports The Daily Star.
The ministry also wrote to the chairman of Dhaka Education Board and director general of Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education seeking departmental action and suspension of their wages respectively.
Earlier, the ministry asked the governing body of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College to suspend the three teachers including acting principal Nazneen Ferdous.
The two other teachers are shift-in-charge of morning shift Zinat Akhtar and class teacher Hasna Hena.
The ministry has also decided to cancel the teachers’ MPOs, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said while addressing a press briefing at his secretariat office.
He was briefing the media about the investigation report of the ministry’s three-member probe committee headed by Prof Yusuf, director of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education.
Departmental action will be taken against all the three teachers, Nahid said.