The student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chhatra Shibir, has called for a dawn-to-dusk hartal tomorrow in greater Chittagong, protesting the killing of an organisational leader in Sunday’s Chittagong University clash.
In a press statement issued yesterday, Kayes Mahmud, acting publicity secretary of Chittagong district Chhatra Shibir, said they would enforce the hartal in Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar and the three hill tracts districts.
Nazmul Hasan, additional superintendent of police, told the Dhaka Tribune that two platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh had been deployed at the campus to avert any untoward incident.
“The police and Rapid Action Battalion have also been patrolling on the campus premise to keep the situation under control,” he added.
Meanwhile, the CU authorities on Sunday night formed a three-member committee, headed by Professor Dr Mohammed Mohiuddin of Institute of Forestry and Environmental Science, to investigate into theincident.
The university authorities vacated the Shah Amanat Hall at night after a case was filed with the Hathazari police station in connection with the killing of a student.
On Sunday, activists of Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, and Chhatra Shibir locked in a clash at CU campus, leaving a Shibir leader dead and 25 others injured.