Bangladesh Chhatra League activist in Sylhet’s Madan Mohan College killed a fellow student activist over territory dispute in the college premises yesterday.
Confirming that the incident had taken place, Sylhet Kotwali police station OC Sohel Ahmed told the Dhaka Tribune that the victim, Abdul Ali, 22, was a Class XII student in the college and was from Nij Silam village in Dakkhin Surma upazila.
Sources at the college said Ali, a member of a Chhatra League faction under the leadership of Arun Debnath Sagar, had an altercation with another faction, led by Parvez, on Tuesday on the college campus.
Still agitated over that altercation, the Parvez followers cornered Ali on the second floor of the college’s academic building yesterday and stabbed him around 12:30pm.
Teachers rushed a critically injured Ali to Osmani Medical College Hospital right away. His heart had been punctured in the attack, and he died while undergoing treatment, around 2:30pm.
A source in the college’s Chhatra League unit said the two factions of the student wing of the ruling party have been involved in a fight for dominance in the college for a while.
However, Kotwali OC Sohel said police suspected that the attack might have been fuelled by personal dispute.
“We are working to find out why Ali was attacked. We have already arrested a man named Rubel, who we suspect was involved in the incident.”
Ali’s father Aklis Miah told the Dhaka Tribune that Ali had been his eldest child among three. “I have faced many difficulties to give my son good education. Now he is gone. I want the killers to be hanged,” he said.