Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Chittagong University (CU) unit yesterday demanded fair probe into the attack on police.
In a press release, signed by CU BCL’s president Alamgir Tipu and general secretary HM Fazle Rabbi Sujon demanded fair probe.
In the press release they said to cover up the university’s vice-chancellor and proctor’s failure, police had carried out brutal attack on general students and vandalised and ransacked hall rooms on November 2 entering dormitories.
Criticising the role of CU VC Professor Dr Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury and CU Proctor Ali Azgar Chowhdury two BCL leaders alleged that the VC categorically instigated the police force to harass the BCL men by giving cases after brutally tortured on them while his past role before taking charge as VC of CU was fully specious.
The leaders claimed that on the police attacked general students entering the two halls.
At least 30 people, including four police personnel, were injured in a fierce clash between two groups of BCL men on the campus on Monday.
On Tuesday, police registered three cases accusing 235 persons in connection with assaulting on duty police personnel and recovery of arms from two Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL)-dominated dormitories.
Hathazari police station’s Sub-Inspector (SI) Manjur Ahmed filed the case in connection with police assault mentioning 55 BCL men’s names and 100 to 120 unnamed while SI Swapan Kuman Sarkar and SI Habibur Rahman filed two arms cases naming 5 persons each and 50 unnamed respectively.
