A Dhaka court on Thursday will deliver a judgment in a case filed against two then teachers of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College over instigating suicide of ninth grader Aritry Adhikary in 2018.
The two accused are – former acting principal of the school Nazneen Ferdous and former morning shift in-charge of the school’s Bailey Road branch Zinat Akhtar. They have been suspended by the institution after filing the case.
Judge Abdullah Al Mamun of Dhaka Metropolitan Session Judge-12 Court is scheduled to announce the verdict on Thursday (February 8).
Earlier on January 21, was fixed for pronouncing the judgment of the case but the verdict was not ready for the delivery. Later, the date was deferred to February 8.
Aritry was found hanging from the ceiling of her home a Shantinagar in the capital on December 3, 2018, hours after she and her parents were allegedly insulted by some teachers at the school.
The next day, her father Dilip Adhikary filed the case with Paltan Police Station accusing three teachers of provoking Aritry's suicide.
On March 28, Detective Branch of Police Inspector Kazi Kamrul Islam submitted a charge sheet against Nazneen Ferdous and Zinat Akhtar to the chief metropolitan magistrate court.
Dhaka 3rd Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on July 10, 2019, framed charges against the two teachers, initiating the trial officially.
Earlier on April 30, 2019, Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury accepted the charge sheet filed in the case.
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