Twenty one activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir’s Rajshahi University unit, including the president and general secretary have been sued for their alleged involvement in the attack on Touhid Al Hossain Tuhin, general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) RU unit.
Shawan Sarkar, one of the victims of the brutal attack and BCL RU unit social affairs secretary, yesterday filed the case with Motihar police station around 10am.
According to Motihar police, Shibir RU unit President Ashraful Alam Emon and Secretary Saifuddin Eyahia have been made the prime accused in the case.
Among the accused, Abdullah al Masum, Rajshahi city unit sports affairs secretary of Chhatra Shibir who was arrested on Saturday night from the city area, admitted his connection in the attack on Tuhin at a press conference in the RMP office on Sunday.
Masum also confessed that several BCL leaders and activists who were deprived from posts in the new committee were also involved in the attack.
However, in a statement, the university’s Shibir unit claimed that police forced Masum to read a draft statement against the Shibir. The statement also said Masum had been suspended from the organisation three years ago for violating rules.
Earlier on Thursday night, Tuhin was hacked allegedly by unidentified Chhatra Shibir activists inside the RU campus. The assailants had cut the tendons of his right arm and legs. He is now undergoing treatment at the capitals’ orthopaedic hospital – NITOR.
Shawan Sarker, who received a bullet-wound during the attack, was undergoing treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
Following the attack on Tuhin, police arrested 15 Shibir activists, suspecting their involvement in the incident. Nine of them were sent to jail under section 54 of Criminal Procedure Code, Officer-in-Charge Abdus Sobhan of Motihar police said
