Habiganj: A court in Habiganj on Saturday sent a teenage boy, who was arrested on charge of assaulting a schoolgirl, to Juvenile Correction Centre in Tongi.

Judge Aftabullah of the District Children’s Court passed the order as police produced Ruhul Amin, 16, before his court in the afternoon.

Neither Ruhul’s parents nor any relative were present at the court while acting deputy director of the district office of the Department of Social Services declined to take the teenage boy under his custody for security reasons.

Earlier on Friday, police arrested Ruhul from Richi village in Sadar upazila after the video footage of a schoolgirl being assaulted by him in broad daylight in the district town went viral on social networking site Facebook.

The video clip showed Rahul, a Class-IX student of Habiganj High School and College and a resident of Rajnagar area of the district town, slapping the Class-VIII girl of Habiganj Girl’s School and dragging her by her hair on 26 August.

Victim’s family members said Ruhul used to tease a Class-VIII girl of the girl’s school who is also a friend of the victim.

As the girl informed her family members of the incident, her brother beat Ruhul around one month ago. Ruhul, however, blamed the victim for the incident.

On 26 August, Ruhul swooped on the victim when she came out of her school at about 4:00pm for home.

However, the incident came to light when the video clip was uploaded on the social networking site Facebook on Thursday.