The tenth-grader Ashraful Ahsan Zitu killed teacher Utpal Kumar Sarkar for hampering his relationship. The 19-year-old gave a confessional statement before the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) court in Dhaka on Wednesday.
Rajid Hasan, magistrate of CJM court, ordered to send him in prison after recording his statement. Anwarul Kabir Babul, additional public prosecutor of the court, confirmed the development to Prothom Alo.
RAB detective branch and RAB-1 arrested Ashraful Ahsan on Wednesday from Gazipur conducting a joint drive.
In the press conference, Khandaker Al Moin on Thursday said Ashraful admitted during primary interrogation that he was roaming around the school area rather brazenly with a girl student. Teacher Utpal asked him to behave properly – a warning that aggrieved him. Later, the student planned to attack the teacher in a bid to display his 'heroism'.
RAB detective branch and RAB-1 arrested Ashraful Ahsan on Wednesday from Gazipur conducting a joint drive.
In the press conference, Khandaker Al Moin on Thursday said Ashraful admitted during primary interrogation that he was roaming around the school area rather brazenly with a girl student. Teacher Utpal asked him to behave properly – a warning that aggrieved him. Later, the student planned to attack the teacher in a bid to display his 'heroism'.
On 25 June, the student assaulted the teacher Utpal Kumar brutally with the cricket stump and left him critically injured – a day when a cricket tournament for girl students was underway in the school. The teacher succumbed to his injuries later. Following the incident, the student went into hiding in different districts.
Khandaker Al Moin said the student brought a cricket stump and kept it hidden behind the classroom. When the teacher Utpal Kumar was watching the cricket match standing alone at a corner of the field, the student came up and hit him on the head from behind.
Utpal Kumar Sarkar began teaching at Haji Yunus Ali School and College in Chitrashail of Ashulia after completing his graduation in political science from University of Chittagong.
According to Saiful Hasan, the principal of Haji Yunus Ali School and College, Utpal Sarkar was the president of the college’s disciplinary committee and he took various steps and gave counselling regarding the students’ misbehaviour.