Englis­h litera­ture teache­r escape­d unhurt after other studen­ts, police came to his rescue­CHITTAGONG: Teachers demonstrated in Bangladesh’s Chittagong port city Wednesday after a student doused a top professor with kerosene to protest against his allegedly lewd lectures, police and officials said. Masud Mahmud, a professor of English literature at private University of Science and Technology, escaped unhurt Tuesday after other students and police came to his rescue. The Bengali daily Prothom Alo said the professor was chased by around half a dozen students before two of them shoved him, and another doused him with kerosene. Bangladesh professor held for Facebook comments on PMDilip Kumar Barua, the registrar of the university, said the attack came after some students complained that the professor’s English literature lectures were “incoherent” and contained “sexually explicit” remarks. Some of the students even submitted a memorandum to the country’s deputy education minister in April over the professor’s lectures.

Source: The Express Tribune July 03, 2019 15:11 UTC