Chattogram: Police on Tuesday arrested the headmaster of a Karnaphuli primary school from the capital for ‘sexually harassing’ students.

Tipped off, a team of Karnaphuli Police Station with the help of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Abul Hashem, headmaster of Paschim Patharghata Government Primary School in Karnaphuli upazila, from Mirpur area around 3 pm, said Syed Mostafa, officer-in-charge of the police station.

Police said Hashem used to take private tuition of Class-V students in a classroom of his school in the afternoon. At that time, he used to try to sexually harass the girls.

The guardian of a student filed a case on Monday. 

Following the filing of the case, police arrested Sadat, president of the school managing committee, on the day while Abul Hashem went into hiding.