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Published : 23 Jan 2026, 12:08 AM
Police have said the school at the centre of a social media outcry over the abuse of a 4-year old student has been shut, with its teachers on the run.
Paltan Police chief Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Khan confirmed the filing of a case by the victim’s mother against the school’s teachers Pabitra Barua and his wife Sharmin Zaman on Thursday.
The case was filed after a video of the teachers abusing the victim at the school named Sharmin Academy went viral on social media.
The suspects have fled, police said.
The child faced the abuse only a week after his admission to the institution.
“The school is closed, and we are looking for the suspects,” said Mostafa.
The video that circulated in social media showed a woman dragging a child in school uniform to a room while slapping him. The woman apparently complained about something to a man in the room.
The woman sat the child on a sofa in the room and kept slapping him.
The man, at one point, approached the child with a stapler and threatened to use it to shut the child’s mouth. The man had been signalling to the child to stop talking.
The man goes out of the room and returns to choke the child with both hands, pressing him against the sofa.
Lasting 4 minutes 13 seconds, the video sparked outrage on social media, prompting widespread condemnation and calls to hold the perpetrators accountable.
It went viral as people repeatedly shared it, calling on guardians to remain vigilant about how their children are treated at schools.
“The video shook me to the core. How could the teachers keep torturing the child for four long minutes?” wondered Sajida Islam Parul in a Facebook post.
“This is a sample of how a school named Sharmin Academy disciplines its students. It sends shivers down the spine -- where children are supposed to be safe, they face their worst fear and harm,” she wrote.
“Are we, the guardians, aware enough?” she asked, urging parents not to be fooled by catchy names and shiny buildings and to carefully evaluate educational institutions before sending their children there.
“Children go to schools to learn, not to face their fear. It takes a lot of care and love to raise children,” she wrote.
