Viqarunnisa morning shift chief sacked

Viqarunnisa Noon School and College morning shift chief Zinnat Ara was sacked following the incident of suicide committed by Oritri Odhikari, a ninth grader of the school. She was also served show cause notice in this regard.

The information was delivered by Viqarunnisa Noon School governing body chairman Golam Ashraf Talukder.

Acting Principal of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College Naznin Ferdous said, the decision of sacking Zinnat Ara was taken at the meeting of managing committee held on Monday night.

On Monday afternoon Oritri Odhikari hanged herself from the ceiling fan with a scarf at her own home at Shantinagar in the capital. Immediately she was rushed to the Dhaka Medical Hospital under critical condition but the on duty physician declared her dead there.

Oritri’s father Dilip Odhikari said, Oritri’s school final test was going on. On Sunday a mobile phone set was recovered from Oritri while the ongoing social science examination. For that reason school authority called us. When we went to the school on Monday the school authority told us that Oritri was copying in the examination with a mobile phone and for that reason the authority decided to give her the Transfer Certificate (TC). The school authority insulted us much in front of Oritri. Later she chose the path of suicide being insulted and for the mental pain.

After the incident when Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid went to the school on Tuesday he faced the angry students. Later Principal Naznin Ferdous sought forgiveness for the incident at her office in presence of the newsmen.

Naznin Ferdous said, the incident is unexpected. We could not understand that the incident would turn in such stage. Probe committee was formed by the time. Education ministry will fix the steps after getting the report. I express forgiveness to all for the incident of suicide.

So far, education ministry and Viqarunnisa School and College authority have formed two investigation committees. Both the committees were asked to submit the report within three days.

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