A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader was killed in an attack allegedly by a rival group on Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) campus yesterday morning.
University sources said Saad Ibne Momtaz, 21, a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Fisheries, and organising secretary of the Ashraful Haque Hall Chhatra League unit, was killed over the election of class representative.
The sources said Momtaz, who was the incumbent class representative, had been involved in a feud with some of his party men over the election for the past few days. The election of class representative was scheduled to be held yesterday.
Following the dispute, a group of Chhatra League activists loyal to the present president of the university unit, Morsheduzzaman Khan Babu, allegedly attacked Momtaz around 9pm on Monday, injuring him critically. Momtaz was left at the hall untreated until yesterday morning, alleged Shamsuddin Al Azad, former Chhatra League president at the university.
But Babu claimed that the Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, was not involved with the incident, and miscreants might have attacked Momtaz to put the blame on the party.
When contacted, BAU Proctor Professor Dr Md Shahidur Rahman Khan said: “Hall Provost Professor Rafiqul Islam informed me about the incident around 9:30am today, and I rushed to the spot and sent the victim to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries around noon.”
The victim’s body was sent to the morgue for post mortem examination.
Meanwhile, BAU Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Md Rafiqul Hoque held a meeting with the registrar, the proctorial body and the students’ affair adviser around 12:30pm to discuss the situation.
A probe body would be formed to investigate the matter to identify the real killers, the proctor said.
Police had visited the spot, and additional police had been deployed on the campus, sources said.