Assault on footballer Taslima's father: Police yet to arrest teacher Jubed

Sobuj Mia, 40, father of Taslima, was beaten by Jubed Talukdar and his men at Mohilla Market in Kolshindur area on Wednesday night, as Taslima refused to attend a school match.

Family member said the Under-16 girls would be honoured at a programme on September 17 in Dhaka, but Jubed asked them not to attend the programme, rather he asked Taslima and some other girls to attend a school match instead.

This incident takes place a day after a TV report showed nine girls of the squad travelling in a rather below-standard Mymensingh-bound regular bus service with no team management personnel accompanying them.

On the other hand, Bangladesh Football Federation in a statement on Wednesday claimed that they had indeed offered the players, all from Mymensingh, a more comfortable journey but they preferred returning like they usually do.

Bangladesh U-16 Women’s team emerged unbeaten champions of Group C of the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship Qualifiers with 4-0 goals victory over UAE on Monday.

After the incident, school committee suspended Jubayed on Thursday afternoon. Sobuj Mia filed a case with Dobaura police station on the day against Jubed.

Officer-in-Charge of Dobaura police station Shawkat Alam told the Dhaka Tribune that they were conducting drives to arrest Jubed.