Benapole teacher suspended for embezzling stipend

A high school headmaster in Benapole has been suspended for embezzling the stipend of two physically challenged students.

Benapole Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 17 Oct 2014, 08:08 AM
Updated : 17 Oct 2014, 08:08 AM

Baropota United High School's management body chief Abdul Gaffar Sardar said they decided to suspend Ainuddin at an emergency meeting Thursday night.

"We found proof of his misappropriating Tk 30,500 stipend of physically challenged students Sumi Akter and Abdullah," he told bdnews24.com Friday.

Sardar said they had started investigating reports of Ainuddin embezzling Sumi's stipend but found he had misappropriated the money of another student,too.

The headmaster refunded the money, he said.

Sharsha Upazila's education officer Waheduzzman said the social welfare directorate gave the stipend, adding that he was aware of the punishment.