PM blames BNP, Jamaat for killing schoolteacher Jharna

FE Team | Published: December 31, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Blaming BNP-Jamaat for the killing of schoolteacher Shamsun Nahar Jharna during the hartal hours Monday, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said Tuesday that the government would hunt the killers and put them on trial for their heinous act, reports UNB.
"BNP and Jamaat are responsible for this killing. The government will hunt the criminals, and Insha-Allah, we'll put them on trial. We won't tolerate such heinous acts any longer," she said. "The government would be tough as needed to stop such kind of activities in future."
The PM sounded the warning while speaking at a function marking the handing over of the results of PSC, JSC and equivalent examinations and the inaugural ceremony of free textbook distribution programme at her official residence Ganabhaban.
Sheikh Hasina said: "The BNP-Jamaat clique again took to the field to kill people. I have no words condemn this killing."
Schoolteacher Shamsun Nahar Jharna, a mother of two sons, succumbed to her injury on Monday after she was hit on her forehead by brickbats hurled by pro-hartal pickets at Noakhali Municipality Market during the hartal hours.
The nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal was enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance protesting the "foiling" of its Gazipur rally by the government and arrest of party men.
On Sunday, in a sudden spate of pre-hartal violence, another schoolteacher and her two children were burnt after the criminals had set fire to their CNG-run auto rickshaw in the capital's Kazipara Sunday evening.
Shamsun Nahar, 55, a schoolteacher from Noakhali; her son Tanjimul Haque, 22, a student of Jahangirnagar University; and her HSC student daughter Anika Akter, 18, were going to Mirpur-7 in the three-wheeler after visiting a doctor at Shantinagar around 7:00 pm, according to the victims and police. When they were stuck in traffic at Kazipara, some criminals came, poured petrol on the vehicle and set fire to it.