Rabindra Univ teacher, who cut off students’ hair, to remain in post
PBC News: Rabindra University teacher Farhana Yasmin Baten, who was allegedly involved in forcefully cutting hair of around 14 students, will remain in her post.
However, Farhana, then chairperson of the Department of History, Culture and Bangladesh Studies, has been asked to refrain herself from academic and administrative activities for three years.
She will have to refrain herself from those activities until students of 2017-18, 2018-19, and 2019-20 sessions end their education, said a release of the university.
The university administration took the decision based on opinions of the syndicate and academic committees, the university registrar Sohrab Ali on Sunday confirmed.
They hope that the decision will resolve the two-month long unstable situation in the university, he added.
The victim students alleged that Farhana Baten had scolded students in her class for keeping their hair big.
On September 28, she forcibly cut off hair of 14 first-year students with scissors in examination hall, they added.
On September 29, one of the victims Nazmul Hossain Tuhin, 25, attempted to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills as he could not tolerate the insult.
