Holding his school teacher accountable for torture and manhandling, a schoolboy in Chandpur allegedly committed suicide yesterday by taking poison.
Md Hanif, 15, the son of Mizanur Rahman from Khidirpur village in Matlab Dakshin upazila of the district, was a class X student at Narayanpur Popular High School.
Sheuly, Hanif’s sister, said Harun-or-Rashid, the school headmaster, beat him in front of his classmates and confined him to the office room in the morning, which upset the boy exceedingly.
His elder brother, Habib, said Hanif returned home at afternoon, and shared his frame of mind. Later, he committed suicide as he could not bear his teacher’s mistreatment.
But the headmaster denied the allegation. He said two female students had brought allegations of sexual harassment against Hanif.
“I just warned him about the harassment,” the headmaster added.
Police recovered the body and sent it to a local hospital morgue.
