BCL beats up three students at DU
Bangladesh Chhatra League activists beat up three students, one of them severely, at Dhaka University yesterday allegedly for personal grudges.
Of the injured, Rasel Ahmed, a fourth year student of peace and conflict studies and activist of BNP-backed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, needed five stitches on the head.
The two others--Masum Billah and Ahmad Ullah Siddique--both master's students of Islamic studies, were beaten because, according to a BCL leader's claim, they are Islami Chhatra Shibir activists.
Some 12 activists loyal to Zahurul Haque Hall unit BCL president Rifat Zaman attacked them while the two were chatting with friends in front of the Arts Building.
They kept punching, slapping and kicking them until Acting Proctor Amzad Ali and three teachers came to their rescue. The BCL activists misbehaved with the teachers, said witnesses.
The proctor said, "There might be personal conflict between the duo and the attackers over publication of a souvenir of the [Islamic studies] department."
All the three took treatment at the university medical centre.
Rasel was attacked in front of the Central Library by Haji Mohammad Mohsin Hall unit activists. He was beaten by cricket stumps, the victim told The Daily Star.
Rasel said he was attacked for his involvement in Chhatra Dal and personal conflict with the hall unit BCL leaders and that two policemen rescued him at Shahbagh.
Omar Sharif, general secretary of DU BCL, said Rasel might have been beaten up over personal clash.
About the two others, he said he heard that they were attacked for their involvement in Shibir.
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