Police on Thursday held the principal of City School International, which is run by some Pakistan nationals in Dhaka, over a row of school fund misappropriation.
The accused, Yasmeen Rajbhoy, is also a Pakistan citizen.
Police said they held Yasmeen Thursday afternoon after the guardians laid a siege to the house of Yasmeen at Baridhara DOHS since Wednesday night.
The guardians alleged that Yasmeen told guardians on Wednesday afternoon
that the Gulshan-based school would be shut.
‘As we heard the news in the evening and found Yasmeen’s movement suspicious, we laid a siege to her house on Wednesday night’, said a guardian.
‘We are worried about our children’s future… they cannot shutdown the school all of a sudden’, she said.
The guardians alleged that their money, paid as tuition fees, was not refunded.
Gulshan police inspector Salahuddin Ahmed told journalists that the guardians laid siege to the house of Yasmeen over an uncertainty about abrupt closure of the educational institution.
Pakistan high commission in Dhaka held meeting with police to learn more about the matter, police said.
Salahuddin said in the evening that a diplomat of Pakistan high commission sat in a meeting with police and the guardians to resolve the matter.
She was held by police but not shown arrested yet, he said.
Pakistani senior journalist Hamid Mir on his tweeter wrote on Thursday evening, ‘PM of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wajed must take notice and release a Pakistani female teacher Yasmeen illegally detained in Dhaka.’
‘Dhaka police not providing counsellor access to Pakistani Principal she was arrested yesterday without any case,’ read his another tweet.
