Students, teachers and local people blocked the Dhaka-Pabna Highway demanding nationalisation of Dr Juhurul Kamal Degree College in Sujanagar upazila of the district .
Officer-in-charge of Sujanagar police station M Nur Islam said agitating students and teachers of the college along with the local people blocked the highway yesterday from 10am, which created a long tailback
on the road, creating sufferings to the commuters.
On information, police rushed in and removed the blockade around 11:30am.
A group of teachers, wishing anonymity, said Principle Abdul Latif of the college took a large amount of money from them to manage nationalsation of the college.
But the principle along with a group of teachers, loyal to him, embezzled the money, they alleged.
Earlier on Thursday, teachers and students of the college locked the principle at his room.