The students kept hall Provost Prof Nasreen Ahmed under lock and key for nearly six hours since 1.00pm inside her office while Pro-VC Dr AFM Yusuf Haider was confined for about four hours since 3.00pm at the common room of the house tutors.

The pro-VC had to face the anger of the female students as he went to visit the spot along with Proctor Dr AKA Firoz and Senior Assistant Proctor Fatema Begum after he was informed of the demonstration.

The demands of the students include reintroduction of the bus service from their hall to the main campus, eviction of shops and stores from the hall rooms, introduction of the attendance register on every floor, reduction of rents by 50 percent for those who share seats, installation of a phone booth and permission for everybody to keep PC.

During their demonstration, the unruly students cut off the telephone and electricity lines of the dormitory.

The pro-VC and the hall provost managed to come out of their captivity after assuring the students that their demands would be met in phases.

The hall authorities told the students that from now on they would be able to keep three computers in their respective room and assured them of taking immediate steps to upgrade their existing hall library into full-fledged one.

They said a phone booth would be installed in the dormitory and the number of stoves in the kitchen would also be increased shortly.

About the bus service, the pro-VC said a new bus would be pressed into service soon from the hall, which is about a km away from the main campus.

The female students had been demonstrating for the last three days to meet their long-awaited demands.

They alleged that the authorities did not provide any bus since the old one went out of order six months ago. "We had requested the authorities several times to repair the bus, but our requests went unheeded," a resident student told UNB wishing anonymity.

"When the hall students are suffering from accommodation crisis, the authorities have allotted four four-seated rooms for setting up shops," she said.

The resident students also shouted slogans against the hall provost and the house tutors protesting their alleged misconduct with the students.

"The house tutors often interfere in our personal matters and hurl abuses at us," another student said, also insisting not to be named.

The hall provost and the pro-VC could not be reached for comments, as the students did not allow reporters to enter the hall during the demonstration.