মাত্র তিন দিনের ব্যবধানে বাংলাদেশের হাইকোর্ট যৌন হয়রানী প্রতিরোধে দু'টি দিকনির্দেশনামূলক রায় দিয়েছে। সবার জ্ঞাতার্থে মামলা দু'টোর বিস্তারিত তথ্যাবলী দেয়া হল: রায়#দুই অধ্যাপক সিরাজুল ইসলাম চৌধুরী এবং অন্যান্য বনাম জাহাঙ্গীরনগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (সময়াভাবে এই প্রেস রিলিজটি অনুবাদ করা গেল না বলে দুঃখিত। তবে কেউ অনুবাদে আগ্রহী হলে লিখে পাঠাতে পারেন) High Court Holds Illegal University Decisions to Exonerate Teacher of Charges, Expel Students. Directs Fresh Inquiry based on New Sexual Harassment Guidelines Summary The High Court gave a landmark judgment today in the first application of its Sexual Harassment Guidelines pronounced on 14 May. One year ago, in May 2008, four women students at Jahangirnagar University made complaints of serial sexual harassment against their teacher and the Chairperson of the Drama Department, Sanowar Hossain Sunny. The University appointed three separate inquiry committees, which examined witnesses and issued reports with clear findings against the teacher. During this period, the students continued to face threats and harassment. In September 2008, the University announced that Sunny was ‘exonerated of all charges of sexual harassment as they had not been proved beyond a reasonable doubt’. Later the University also proceeded to pass orders of temporary expulsion against four of the women complainants, and two male students who had given evidence in their favour. Prof Sirajul Islam Chowdhury and others filed a public interest petition challenging the University’s decision and actions. Later the victim-complainants and the two other students also became parties to the petition (Prof Sirajul Islam and others v Jahangirnagar University and others Writ Petition 9414 of 2008). Today the High Court held that the decisions taken by the University to exonerate Sunny on the one hand, and to expel the students on the other, were both without lawful authority. It also directed the University to hold a fresh inquiry into the incident, with independent persons, on the basis of the new Guidelines on Sexual Harassment pronounced in BNWLA v Bangladesh . Citing judgments…