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Salim Reza, Dhaka: A Bangladesh cricket board coach, who allegedly sexually harassed a female minor on June 1, has received a show-cause notice from Bangladesh Dinajpur District Sports Association (DSA), 20 days after the incident took place inside the Dinajpur district Sports Village. Abu Samad Mithu, an appointed coach of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) who runs the Prochesta Cricket Chakra cricket school, reportedly made an advance on the 15-year-old budding cricketer as he tended to an injury she sustained on her left leg during practice at the DInajpur district Gor-E-Shohid Boromath. The father of the victim apparently sat with other Dinajpur District Sports Association members earlier to discuss the matter but after getting no cooperation following arbitration, he wrote a letter to inform the Deputy Commissioner of Dinajpur, Mir Khairul Alam, who is also the president of Dinajpur Dinajpur District Sports Association, on June 14. Deputy Commissioner of Dinajpur, Mir Khairul Alam issued the show-cause notice on Today after media outlets reported on the salacious act. The notice requires Abu Samad Mithu to answer to the accusations within three days. However, when speaking to Xtratime over phone, Abu Samad Mithu asserted that he did not receive a show-cause letter. This blatant retort only proved to provoke further protest amongst rights groups in Bangladesh dinajpur district. A rights activist demanded Mithu's expulsion from the Dinajpur District Sports Association and Bangladesh Cricket Board while the Dinajpur Khelaghar Asor will also to hold a human chain in front of the DC office today protesting the incident.