Police disperse dental students
Police yesterday foiled a programme of BSc Dental Students' Association of laying siege to the health ministry in order to press home their four-point demand.
The law enforcers charged batons and used water cannons to disperse the students when they tried to remove a barricade in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital.
Nineteen students were detained from the spot.
Police put up the barricade as the students had gathered there to move to the secretariat around 11:00am, Shiblee Noman, assistant commissioner (Ramna zone) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Star yesterday.
At one point, the students started a procession where many of them were wearing shrouds.
Shiblee said the agitating students threw stones at police, tried to remove the barricade and march on the secretariat.
He said they brought the situation under control around 11:30am.
Later, the students alleged that the police obstructed their “peaceful” movement. They also urged the authorities concerned to accept their demands.
The students' demands include issuing practice registrations to dental graduates, appointing dental graduates in government, semi-government and autonomous organisations through BCS examinations and on an ad hoc basis.
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