A scheduled examination at the Accounting Department of Chittagong University (CU) was not held on Saturday as a section of leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) kept the exam hall under lock and key.
Departmental sources said the second year mid-term examination, course no- 201, was scheduled to be held from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm where three students of the department and also the BCL men would not get permission to sit for the exam.
Professor Dr Harur Rasid, head of accounting department, said the three students had failed in four subjects out of a total of nine in the honours’ first year, 2012-2013 session. However, they demanded to appear at the exam and continued to violate the university’s rules.
Witnesses and students said the three BCL men led by Raju Munsi drove the examinees from the exam hall and put the five classrooms under lock and key at around 10:30 am following an altercation with the teachers.
Receiving the information, the proctor and policemen rushed to the scene and urged the BCL men to open the locks.
Proctor Siraj-Ud-Dowla took the BCL men to the vice-chancellor office after a failed attempt to elicit a positive response from them, keeping the students stand before the classrooms. The BCL men finally opened the classroom at around 1:20 pm, halting the scheduled examination.
Professor Siraj-Ud-Dowla, proctor of CU, told the Dhaka Tribune that they held a meeting with these BCL men and the department head at the VC’s office following the incident.
“As the academic system has been changed, we are looking over the matter to see how the BCL men can sit for the exam,” he added.
