A court in Dhaka has discharged lawmaker AKM Salim Osman from a case filed over humiliating school teacher Shyamol Kanti Bhakta in public in Narayanganj in 2016.
Chief Judicial Magistrate AKM Emdadul Haque of Dhaka passed the order on Tuesday (Oct 23) after hearing a discharge petition filed by the Jatiya Party lawmaker’s counsel as the court “found no ground” to frame charges against him.
The court indicted another accused Mohammad Opu as the charge brought against him of assaulting the headmaster physically was proved.
On May in 2016, Shyamol Kanti, headmaster of Piyar Sattar Latif High School in Narayanganj, was humiliated and forced to squat holding his ears in presence of local Jatiya Party MP Salim Osman.
A video clip of the incident went viral on social media networks sparking off huge protests across the country.