Bangladesh professor doused in kerosene over ‘lewd’ lectures

Teachers demonstrated in Bangladesh’s Chittagong port city yesterday 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.

A student had been arrested and remanded in custody. Dilip 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. University investigated the allegation but found nothing untoward.