Tortured boy
Your Dinajpur correspondent's report of September 2 is disgusting reading. Is the 'madrassa' teacher(?) a man or a beast? He should be taken to police custody, and criminally prosecuted; and punished in an exemplary manner; to set an example. To begin with; he should be immediately sacked from his job!
It is high time that cruel corporal punishments are stopped forthwith. Madrassa teachers are the worst example of such inhuman cruelty; where caning seems to be the "order of the day"; and a well established practice! Next are rural primary schools, where slapping and caning by teachers(?) is commonly practiced. Most "Huzoors" and teachers come to class with a whipping stick in hand; but possibly no books or notes!
In this case, the matter has reached extreme levels. Imagine keeping a child confined for a month, without informing his mother; while regularly torturing him! Is it a school, or a jail? Such institutions of cruelty should be disbanded.
We do not need war stories to learn about atrocities, it is right there in our back-yards!
This madrassa teachers and members of the managing committee should be forced by the officials of the upazilla to pay for the full treatment and rehabilitation of the child.
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