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A brilliant career has perhaps been cut short, and a young mind scarred for ever. A schoolteacher was arrested on Saturday for allegedly forcing one of his students — a Madhyamik topper — to have sex with him, threatening to blackmail her with photographs of their intimate moments. The girl, a student of Mothabari High School, Kaliachak, had passed Madhyamik in 2006 with exceptional marks. She had, in fact, found a place in the top 10 merit list among girls. After Madhyamik, she took admission in Barlow Girls’ School, Malda, from where she was to take her Higher Secondary in 2008. When Ismail Sk, the chemistry teacher at her old school, suggested to the girl’s parents that she should move into his home at Englishbazar, her parents had no reason to suspect that anything could go wrong. They thought the teacher was being generous as he was concerned about their daughter’s studies. Soon after the girl moved in, Ismail — married with two daughters — started a romantic involvement with her