The High Court yesterday summoned Ujirpur Police Station's officer-in-charge and two others including a local Awami League leader before it on November 15 in connection with torture on a schoolteacher.
On October 21, a Bangla daily published a report saying that local AL leader Liton Pandey and his men attacked Anath Bandhu Halder, headmaster of Natharkandi High School at Ujirpur of Barisal, and hung a ring of shoes from his neck on October 19.
The report said Liton assaulted Anath as he did not commit irregularities to help Liton acquire a post of a clerk at the school.
In response to a writ petition submitted yesterday, the HC ordered Ujirpur Police Station's OC, Liton Pandey and Chitto Ranjan Boral, chairman of the managing committee of the school, to appear before it and explain their roles in connection with the incident of October 19.
Advocate Manzill Murshid, president of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh, submitted the writ petition.
The HC bench of Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Ashish Ranjan Das also issued a rule upon the government to explain in four weeks why the government's inaction to take appropriate legal action against the people responsible for assaulting the headmaster should not be declared illegal.