A three-member committee has been formed to investigate into the assault on a group of teachers at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST).
The committee was formed headed by Physical Science faculty Dean Professor Dr Sabina Yeasmin, SUST Vice-Chancellor Professor Aminul Haque Bhuiyan told the reporters.
Two other members of the committee are university Proctor Dr Kamruzzaman Chowdhury and Sociology department Associate Professor Amina Parvin.
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On Sunday morning, activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League assaulted a group of SUST teachers who were protesting the vice-chancellor’s corruption and irregularities.
After the attack, Prof Zafar Iqbal, a secular figure and a popular science-fiction writer, sat in the rain in front of the VC office for several hours in protest. His wife Prof Yasmeen Haque was among the teachers who the Chhatra League members assaulted.
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Hundreds of people came down hard on the ruling party’s student body as soon as the news and photographs of the attack and Prof Zafar Iqbal’s protest came up in social media.