Parimol gets life term

A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Parimal Joydhar, former teacher of Viqarunnisa School and College to life term imprisonment for raping a school girl in 2011.

Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-4 of Dhaka Saleh Uddin Ahmed passed the order also fined him Tk 50,000, in default to serve six months more in jail.

Earlier on November 10, the same court fixed November 25 for delivering the verdict against Parimal.

According to the case statement, Parimal on May 28, 2011 sexually assaulted the girl in his private coaching centre.

On July 5, 2011, the victim`s father filed the rape case with Badda Police Station against Parimal, Viqarunnisa principal Hosne Ara and its Bashundhara branch head Lutfur Rahman.

The school sacked him when students demonstrated after the allegations of rape surfaced.

Detectives arrested Parimal from a relative’s house in Keraniganj on July 7, 2011 and he made a confessional statement before a court on July 11, 2011.