A victim of the clash between police and polytechnic students at Borhanuddin upazila of Bhola district succumbed to his injuries at Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital on Monday.
Identified as Akmol, 26, son of Din Islam from Kachua of Borhanuddin, was a junior clerk of Bhola Shahbazpur Gas Field under Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation.
After autopsy, the body of the victim was handed over to his relatives yesterday, said Shakhawat Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kotwali police station.
Two separate cases have been lodged against more than 400 polytechnic students in this connection. One for the murder of Akmol, while the other for ransacking vehicles.
Six of them were held yesterday.
The arrested are second semester students Dipu Majumdar, Subal Majumdar; fourth semester students Sohanur Rahman, Adur Razzak, Rashed and sixth semester student Shah Farhad Bhola polytechnic institute.
Akmol received head injuries from brickbats thrown during the clash.
He was admitted to a local health complex and later transferred to the BSMCH.
Noor Muhammad Khan, a colleague of the victim said Akmal left for Bhola land office by a private bus that day.
The bus came under attack when the agitating students of Bhola Polytechnic Institute blocked the Bhola-Charfassion highway in Borhanuddin upazila around 10:00am. The clash between police and the students left Akmal severly injured.
Mainul Hasan, acting in-charge of Borhanuddin police station said Din Islam, father of the deceased filed a murder case accusing nine by name and 200 unidentified.
On the other hand, Sultan Ahmed, driver of a BRTC bus filed another case for damaging public transport accusing 27 by name and 200 unidentified polytechnic students.
Students of different polytechnic institutes on Sunday went on a rampage across the capital and different districts in protest of their professional inequalities with BSc engineers holding bachelor degrees.
The agitating students vandalised scores of vehicles and clashed with police while staging demonstrations.
The polytechnic students took to the streets demanding amendment to the 2008 government gazette which termed diploma engineers “supervisor” rather than engineers.
Due to the tensed situation prevailing in the campus no classes were held on that day to avoid police harassment, said Mustafizur Rahman Khan, principal of Bhola Government Polytechnic Institute.