Two assistant proctors of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) resigned over the factional clash between the two the Bangladesh Chhatra League groups that left a student dead.
Campus sources said assistant proctors – Niloy Chandra Sarkar and Abu Awal Mohammad Shoyeb – submitted their resignation letters to Proctor Himadri Shekhor Ray on Sunday night.
Proctor Himadri Shekhor, however, told the Dhaka Tribune that the two proctors in their resignation letters mentioned that they had quit over personal grounds.
“The final decision in this regard will be taken after the Vice-Chancellor of the university Professor Dr Aminul Haque Bhuiyan returns home from India on November 26.”
Sources of the campus seeking anonymity said they had resigned as the BCL central committee was blaming university’s proctorial body for the clash.
Proctor Himadri Shekhor Ray may resign from his post soon, said the sources.
Earlier, Sumon Das, 22, an activist of the BCL was killed and 17 others were injured in a factional clash of the ruling party’s student wing over establishing supremacy on the campus on Thursday morning.
Later, the university authority announced closure of the university for sine die. A three-member probe committee, headed by SUST Prof Ilias Uddin, has been formed to investigate the incident. The probe committee was asked to submit its report within seven working days.
Police so far picked 27 BCL activists up from different areas of Sylhet city.
