Hathazari police have been ordered to swiftly deal with all the cases filed over murdering students at Chittagong University.
Superintendent of Police AKM Hafiz Akhtar yesterday gave the order during a meeting with the university vice chancellor at the latter’s office yesterday noon.
Hathazari police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Ismail Hossain confirmed this to the Dhaka Tribune.
Chittagong District (North) Additional Superintendent of Police Md Shahidullah, Assistant Police Super (Hathazari circle) AFM Nizam Uddin, Md Salauddin, Inspector (investigation) of Hathazari Police Station, were present at the meeting.
On December 14, Tapos Sarkar, a first year student of the Department of Sangskrit, was shot dead during a clash between shuttle train-based Chhatra League factions –Varsity Express and Choose Friend with Care – at a place between Shah Amanat and Shah Jalal halls.
He used to stay at Shah Amanat Hall.
His friend Hafizul Islam of the same department filed a case with Hathazari police against up to 42 persons over the murder on December 16. Of them, 30 BCL activists were named and the rest were kept unnamed in the case.
“We are also asked to arrest those who are accused of killing Tapos,” OC Ismail said, adding that they were even ordered to show zero tolerance towards any unrest situation on the campus even if it was caused by the ruling party’s student wing.
Chhatra League faction Varsity Express, which had been enforcing their non-stop blockade programme demanding withdrawal of the case, yesterday halted it for two days. They claimed that the case was filed against those who were not implicated in the case.
CU Chhatra League chapter’s disbanded committee’s Organising Secretary Ariful Islam told the Dhaka
Tribune that they had halted their blockade programme because Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is to visit Chittagong today.
