A number of classrooms of different faculties at Chittagong University (CU) were sealed off by students on strike yesterday, the eight consecutive day of indefinite strike at the campus.
The rooms were blocked off by applying instant adhesive to the locks.
Campus sources said, Shibir men allegedly locked a number of classrooms of Art and Humanities faculty, Science Faculty and Marine Science and Fisheries Institute in the morning halting the academic activities.
CU Proctor Siraj-ud-Dowla said, the university staffs opened the classrooms when the office hour began. He also claimed that academic activities were not hampered because of the incident.
Professor Dr Imran Hossain, dean of Arts and Humanities faculty told the Dhaka Tribune: “They put “super glue” to at least 50 to 60 locks of the classrooms of different departments but the dean office remained safe”.
Earlier on Saturday, miscreants hurled crude bombs at campus bound shuttle train for the second time during the strike.
Eight days into the strike, the university authority is still silent over the issue while the protesters have been carrying out subversive activities in a bid to paralyse the university.
Though the Proctor said they would take “stern action” against the perpetrators, no one had been arrested yet in connection with anarchy.
Under the banner of “General Students of CU”, Shibir men of CU unit allegedly have enforced the indefinite strike demanding reopening of the Shah Amanat and Suhrawardy residence halls.
Shah Amanat hall was closed after a severe clash between the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Islamic Chhatra Shibir men on January 12 earlier this year while Suhrawardy hall was announced shut after a gunfight between the same parties on August 24.
Both the closed dormitories were under the control of Shibir men, said campus sources.
