DU registrar office staff 'assault' journo

Some of the staff of Dhaka University (DU) registrar office allegedly assaulted the campus correspondent of the Daily Ittefaq yesterday.

Kabirul Islam Kanon, also a third-year student of mass communication and journalism department, later made a written complaint to Vice Chancellor Prof Akhtaruzzaman.

According to it, he went to the building in the morning to verify an allegation against the officials of coming late to work.

He said while he was filming the empty office rooms around 11:00am, a group of staff attacked him. The office hour starts at 9:00am.

They also snatched his phone and hurled abusive words claiming that they were BCL activists, Kabir alleged.

He identified the attackers as section officers Nizam Uddin and Ahsanul Kabir, and personal secretary to the registrar Sheikh Giyas Uddin.

Contacted, Nizam Uddin said they just had an altercation with Kanon. The VC said stern action will be taken against the officials.