Gun toting lecturer Shareef suspended

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has suspended lecturer Dr Md Raihan Shareef of Shaheed Monsur Ali Medical College Hospital in Sirajganj following his arrest after a gun he brought to class went off and injured a student.

The notice regarding his temporary suspension was issued on Wednesday.
The suspension is due to his arrest on criminal charges, the notice said. However, as per the rules, the lecturer will continue to get his subsistence allowance during the term of the suspension.

On Monday, a student named Arafat Amin Tomal - a third-year student of the colleges MBBS programme - was shot in the leg as Shareef was showing off with a pistol during an oral exam.

Afterwards, angry students confined the lecturer and launched a protest, stirring tensions on the campus.

After receiving a report on the incident, police went to the scene, took Shareef into custody and seized his firearm. The Detective Branch later recovered several other weapons, including a foreign pistol and ammunition, from his possession.

A lecturer in the Department of Community Medicine, Shareef is the son of former Sirajganj Govt College Professor Abdur Razzak and lived in the towns Dattabari Moholla.

Two cases have been filed against Shareef. The first was filed by Tomals father Abdullah Al Amin. Four of Tomals classmates have been named as witnesses. DB police filed another case against Shareef over his possession of an illegal firearm.

Sirajganj Superintendent of Police Arifur Rahman Mandal said that allegations of sexual harassment of students and taking drugs on the college campus had also been made against Shareef. They will all be investigated, he said.