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Bangla: Madrasa teacher demonstrates lesson of hell to 14 girls
[Bangla Daily Star] A teacher of a girls' Kawmi madrasa on Tuesday seared legs of 14 students by a hot spatula in her punitive attempt to make them feel the agony of fire in hell.The girls, aged between eight and 12, underwent the hellish experience as they were "irregular" in offering their prayers. They are students of Talimul Koran Mahila Madrasa at Namashyampur in city's Kadamtali. The victims received treatment at local clinics with injuries on left legs. Teacher Jesmin Akhter went into hiding as a case was filed, said Sub-inspector Sarker Md Jubayer of Kadamtali police. Abdul Jalil, father of victim Jannatul Ferdous, 8, said after a 10-day holiday the madrasa reopened on Tuesday and his daughter attended the class at 8:00am. Informed by another guardian, he rushed to the institution at 1:30pm and met a gathering of protesting locals. Jalil quoting his daughter said Jesmin inflicted burns on the 14 students at around 8:30am for not being "regular" in offering their prayers during the vacation. During her act of "punishment" Jesmin was quoted as asking the victims if they knew the severity of fires in hell. If they didn't say their prayers regularly, they would experience such torment in hell, she added. Jalil said the teacher kept her spatula on a burning gas oven adjacent to the classroom and each time burned the legs of three students. She also forced the maimed students to continue with the classes till 1:15pm. The news spread when mother of a student went to the madrasa with meal for her daughter at 1:15pm, police said. Agitating locals immediately besieged the madrasa, but police intervened and brought the situation under control, said SI Jubayer. Neither guardians nor the police could confirm immediately whether the madrasa is approved by the government. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-03 |
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