Chattogram headmaster arrested for sexually harassing students

Police on Tuesday arrested the headmaster of a primary school in Chattogram from Dhaka for sexually harassing his students. After receiving a tip off, a team from Karnaphuli police station with the help of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Abul Hashem, headmaster of Paschim Patharghata Government Primary School in Karnaphuli upazila, from the Mirpur area of the capital at around 3 pm, said Karnaphuli police station OC Syed Mostafa. Police said Hashem used to privately tutor some Class-V students in a classroom of his school in the afternoon. At that time, he used to try to sexually harass the girls. The guardian of a student filed a case against the headmaster on Monday. After the filing of the case, police arrested Sadat, president of the school managing committee, on the day though Abul Hashem had gone into hiding.