Rabindra University’s Farhana suspended for 3 years

Rabindra University authorities have suspended its teacher Farhana Yeasmin Baten from academic and administrative activities for three academic years for trimming the hair of 14 students.

Signed by Registrar Sohrab Hossain, an official order was issued in this regard on Sunday.

According to the office order, Farhana, associate professor, Cultural Heritage and Bangladesh Studies Department, has been instructed to refrain from all academic and administrative activities including taking classes and exams, until the end of the academic activities of 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 sessions.

In reaction, students, who have been demanding termination of the teacher, alleged that authorities took such a decision in favor of the teacher and they said this decision should be taken at the beginning of the movement.

Earlier on September 26, Farhana, the chair of the Cultural Heritage and Bangladesh Studies Department, was charged with forcibly cutting the hair of 16 students.

The following day, Nazmul Hasan Tuhin, a student, tried to take his own life by consuming sleeping pills, prompting the university students to stage protests.

Later, a five-member probe committee was formed to investigate the incident while the university suspended Farhana on September 30.