Bogura judge removed for forcing student’s mother to hold her feet

Staff Reporter :
Additional District and Sessions Judge in Bogura Rubaiya Yeasmin has been withdrawn and attached to the Law Ministry for forcing the mother of a student in the district to touch her feet and beg forgiveness.
The government on Thursday took the step in consultation with Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, sources said.
According to Bogura Government Girls’ High School rules, all students are supposed to clean their classrooms by turns, but the judge’s daughter who is an eighth grader of the school never did even though Monday was her turns along with three other students.
As she refused to sweep the classroom, the other three students declined in protest, said students of the school.
On Monday night, the judge’s daughter allegedly took to social media and wrote a post stating that since she is the daughter of a judge, she is above the rules. The teachers of the school corroborated the content of the post. Three of her classmates took screenshots of her post and shared it in their Facebook group.
The judge went to the school on Tuesday morning and asked the class teacher to call in the three students and their parents.
When the three students came to the school, the judge threatened to file a cybercrime case against them, claiming that they wrote “derogatory words” on Facebook insulting her and her daughter. Headmistress Rabeya Khatun and other class teachers were present there, alleged the students.
They also alleged that the judge compelled one of the student’s mother to beg pardon by touching her feet.
Later hundreds of Bogura Government Girls’ High School students demonstrated in front of the school, protesting against
the judge for allegedly forcing a student’s mother to touch her feet and beg forgiveness.
Meanwhile, the agitated students also alleged that the headmistress discriminated them.
Denying all the allegations, the headmistress said, “All girls are equal to me. As there is only one cleaner at the school, the students have to clean the classrooms themselves”.
Later Deputy Commissioner of Bogura, Saiful Islam, assured the students that the District Judge would take action against the Additional Judge.