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'Try culprits who instigated principal Touhafa's suicide'

Thousands join procession at Saidpur, submit memo to DC

OUR CORRESPONDENT, Nilphamari
Students, teachers, employees and members of the managing committees of all educational institutions under Saidpur Municipality yesterday brought out a procession demanding fair investigation into the unnatural death of Principal Touhafa Begum and trial of those who instigated her suicide.
They later submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner through Saidpur upazila nirbahi officer (UNO).
About 8,000 students, teachers, employees and members of the managing committees of all tire 11 educational institutions gathered at Saidpur Railway play ground at around 10:00am and took out the procession.
Touhafa Begum, 49, principal of Saidpur Adorsha Girls' School and College, committed suicide at her Nayabazar residence under Saidpur Municipality on October 30 morning. Police recovered the body hanging from ceiling fan after breaking open the door of her room.
Akhter Hossain, husband of the deceased principal, filed a case with Saidpur Police Station on November 2, accusing three persons of instigating her suicide.
The accused are Amzad Hossain Sarker, former chairman of the institution's managing committee, also former BNP lawmaker from Nilphamari-2 (Saidpur and Kishoreganj), his brother Rashidul Islam Sarker, also Saidpur unit Jubo Dal president, and Ismail Hossain, office assistant of the institution.
The accused fled the area after filing of the case, said the officer-in-charge of Saidpur Police Station.
It was alleged in the case that the three accused with the connivance of each other misappropriated Tk 20 lakh from the institution's fund during the last four-party alliance government.
Touhafa Begum could not realise the money from them after repeated efforts and there was a misunderstanding with the newly formed school managing committee regarding the matter.
Filled with frustration and fear of social humiliation, she committed suicide on October 30 morning, goes the case statement.
Before suicide, the principal wrote down two notes -one to the new managing committee president and the other to her husband. Police recovered the two notes from
her residence on the day of her suicide and exposed it to newsmen on November 1.
The notes were written on official pad and carried her signature and seal.
"1 wanted to live in this beautiful earth but some of the school managing committee members did not let me sur-vive,"Touhafa said in the notes.
In the note written to the present managing cdmrnit-tee president, the deceased said, "Through evil cooperation, the trio [former managing committee president Amzad Hossain Sarker. his younger brother Rashidul Islam Sarker and office assistant Ismail Hossain) misappropriated Tk 20 lakh from the institution fund and imposed its responsibility on me," she wrote.
"Recently I met Amzad Hossain Sarker, Rashidul Islam Sarker and Ismail Hossain several times and tried to persuade them to deposit the misappropriated money in the institution fund but they denied their offence.
"For this, I could not give the proper report on the institution's account to the newly formed managing committee. I don't like to live in this earth with the false blame upon me," she wrote.
In the note addressing her husband, Touhafa Begum wrote, "I am victim of conspiracy. The three conspirators did not let me live on this earth. Please forgive me for my decision to leave you all untimely. Take care of our two sons and the only daughter to make them worthy citizens.”