Holy Family teacher arrested for sexually harassing student

PBC News:  Holy Family Medical College’s associate Professor Dr Salahuddin Chowdhury has been arrested on charge of sexually harassing a female student.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested him on Wednesday following a case filed, said ANM Imran Khan, assistant Director (ASP) of RAB’s legal and media wing.

The victim female student lodged the case with Ramna Police Station on December 28.

It was learnt that Dr Salauddin, Associate Professor of the Pharmacology Department, gave the student some bad proposal on Facebook messenger on September 9.

When she refused, the teacher threatened her not to pass in the examinations. He also told her to delete the messages and asked to meet him alone.

Dr Salahuddin Chowdhury has already taken Tk 20,000 in two phases in the name of tutoring her but he never did so. He called her to his house for studying many times but the victim student refused, she alleged.

She also alleged that the teacher is now threatening her by calling from unknown mobile numbers.