General students and different student organisations have taken to the streets at Dhaka University to protest the incidents of sexual harassment on the campus during Pohela Boishakh celebration.
They also demanded exemplary punishment of those culprits being shown on the footage of police's CCTV camera.
Dhaka University Students' Federation, Students Front have brought out procession that marched through the campus premises separately on Sunday morning.
Hasan Tarek, president of Bangladesh Students' Union said the organisation brought out processions in district headquarters alongside 15 thanas in Dhaka.
He said they would also hold a human chain at Dhaka University on Monday, protesting the sexual assaults.
DU Physics department students have arranged a protest programme titled “Our Protest Against Sexual Harassment During Boishakh Celebration” at Doyel Chottor near Curzon Hall.
Gonojagoron Mancho is also scheduled to demonstrate a torch procession on Sunday afternoon at Shahbagh.
When thousands of people were celebrating the Pohela Boishakh, gangs of unruly youths swooped on around five to seven women and sexually harassed them at Suhrawardy Udyan and some parts of Dhaka University campus.
The attackers were honking vuvuzelas during the assaults to suppress the victims’ screams, witnesses said adding that they also filmed the incidents with inhuman enthusiasm.
Bangladesh Students’ Union DU unit President Liton Nandi received severe injuries while trying to rescue a woman near the TSC.