BCL again assaults newsman

A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), students’ wing of ruling Awami League, Chittagong University (CU) unit assaulted two students of CU including a journalist of a local daily yesterday.

The victims were Mizanur Rahman, student of Public Administration department also the CU Correspondent of local daily Purbodesh and Saddam Hossain of Marketing department.

Witnesses said the students of the different department deposited their money standing in a queue inside CU Agrani Bank Branch around 12pm.

At one stage, an altercation took place between Saddam and BCL activist Robin as Robin tried to deposit his money to the bank without maintaining any line.

“Rescuing Saddam from the BCL men, we were going to  the Shahid Minar area. Robin who belongs to CU BCL president Alamgir Tipu group and his other associates beat us up asking to show them university ID cards”, said victim Mizanur.

A written complaint was filed with CU proctor office, said he.

CU Proctor Ali Azgar Chowdhury said the proctorial body would take steps after investigation the incident.