Aritry Adhikary’s death: Teacher Hasna Hena gets bail

Viqarunnisa Noon School and College Teacher Hasna Hena has received bail after spending four days in prison in a case over ‘instigating’ the suicide of class nine student Aritry Adhikary.

The bail petition was heard and accepted by Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Baki Billah on Sunday.

Court police Deputy Inspector Jalal Ahmed told bdnews24.com that the bail is effective until the case investigation report is submitted.

“Bail has been set at Tk 5,000. Women, children and the elderly get priority on bail. Her lawyer Jahangir Alam had noted that in his bail petition.”

The renowned Viqarunnisa school fell into unrest after Aritry committed suicide at her home in Santinagar on Dec 3.

Aritry’s family claim that she was caught with a mobile phone during an exam and her parents were called to a meeting with the principal, where they were ‘mistreated’, leading to her suicide.

According to the school authority, Aritry was caught cheating on the exam with a mobile phone.

A group of Viqarunnisa students and guardians launched a protest against the circumstances of Aritry’s death the day after her suicide. It continued for three days. The Ministry of Education launched an investigation into the incident and fired Hasna Hena, the school’s Acting Principal Nazneen Ferdous and the head of one of the branches of the school, Zinnat Akhtar. Their MPOs were also scrapped.

The Ministry of Education also recommended that police and RAB take legal action against them. That night police arrested Hasna Hena. Law enforcers have not moved to arrest the other two suspects in the case.