Source: BBC
By Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News, Dhaka
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Police in Bangladesh are looking for a teacher from a Muslim religious school who allegedly placed burning hot iron rods on the legs of her students for failing to offer prayers regularly.
They say 14 girls, aged between eight and 12, received burn injuries.
The school has been temporarily closed following the incident, while the “hellish experience” of the girls has been widely reported in newspapers.
Their injuries are not thought to be serious.
The Bangladeshi government banned all corporal punishment in all educational institutions, including religious schools – or madrassas – in 2010.
“I was shocked to see the burn injury of my daughter,” Jumur Akhter, mother of one of the affected students, told the BBC.
The girls were learning Arabic and Bengali at the Talimul Koran Mahila madrassa at Namashyampur in Dhaka. The incident is said to have happened on Tuesday.
Categories: Bangladesh, Human Rights, Human values
The injury given in the picture seems serious injury as it is caused by a burning rod.In Islam a teacher is given a status of a father or mother. How can be a mother or father so cruel.
Secondly the religion Islam never allow such cruel punishment in the name of prayers.
Actually the teachers with less abilities usually take steps like that to show that they are so strict and religious. Actually they are congested minded and can not even pray for their students to put a positive example in front of them by their positive doings.