Shawdesh Desk:

A school teacher has been remanded in judicial custody by a court in Thakurgaon in connection with the sexual harassment of a minor student.

The accused is as Tula Ram Paul, 38.

Ranisankail police station officer-in-charge SM Jahid Iqbal said that they arrested the accused after the girl’s father lodged a complaint on Wednesday.

Later, the accused was produced in a Thakurgaon court that sent him to judicial custody.

According to the case statement, the teacher allegedly harassed the girl sexually after taking her to a room of the school on Tuesday morning.

The accused fled when she started screaming. The girl later narrated her ordeal to her parents.