Court Correspondent :
A Dhaka court yesterday deferred to February 8 the verdict in a case filed against two former teachers of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College for allegedly instigating student Aritri Adhikary of the school to commit suicide.
January 21 was fixed for pronouncing the verdict of the case but the verdict was not ready for the delivery and Judge Abdullah Al Mamun of the Twelfth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court of Dhaka set the new date for the announcement of the verdict.
The two accused people are: former Acting Principal of the school Nazneen Ferdous and Morning Shift-in-Charge of the school’s Bailey Road branch Zinat Akhtar.
They have been suspended by the institution after the case was filed against them.
Earlier on November 27 last year, the court fixed January 21 to pronounce the verdict after the end of the arguments on behalf of prosecution and defense.
Dhaka’s Third Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on July 10, 2019, framed charges against the two teachers, initiating the trial officially.
Earlier on April 30 of the same year, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury accepted the charge sheet of the case.
The court also allowed the Investigation Officer’s plea to drop the name of Aritri’s class teacher Hasna Hena from the case as allegations brought against her were not found true during the investigation.
Police on March 28 of 2019, submitted the charge sheet against the then Acting Principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College Nazneen Ferdous and Morning Shift in-Charge of the school’s Bailey Road branch Zinat Akhtar.
Investigation Officer (IO) Inspector Qazi Qamrul Islam of Detective Branch of police submitted the charge sheet.
Aritri was found hanging from a ceiling fan of her residence in the capital’s Shantinagar area on December 3, 2018, hours after she and her parents were allegedly insulted by the teachers. She was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where physicians declared her dead.