Sexual harassment: JnU Lecturer Shahed Emon suspended

The Jagannath University (JnU) administration has suspended the Film and Television Department Lecturer Abu Shahed Emon following a student's complaint of sexual harassment.

The department Chairman Professor Junaid Ahmed Halim has been relieved from the post for failure to support the victim.

The 94th syndicate meeting of the university decided this on Thursday, said Acting Registrar Professor Dr Ainul Islam.

Details about this will be provided later in a notice, he said.

Earlier on Wednesday, the victim, a student of the Film and Television Dept of Jagannath University, made a complaint of sexual harassment to the President.

In the complaint, she said she filed an application to the university vice-chancellor in December of 2021, seeking justice for the sexual harassment and bullying that happened to her. But she did not get justice rather the harassing teacher and in support of him, the department chairman failed her in several subjects in the honor's exam, she said.

She said the accused teachers are driving her to suicide by threatening to expel, failing in exams, and mentally torturing by isolating her from other students.

On Monday, she went to the office of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and accused Lecturer Abu Sahed Imon of sexually harassing her and making death threats to her.

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