'BCL men assault' JU teacher

Three Bangladesh Chhatra League activists allegedly assaulted a Jahangirnagar University teacher as he protested harassment of a female visitor and her companion on Thursday.

Prof Mozahidul Islam of history department said he saw a few BCL men harassing a girl and beating up her male companion in the campus's Chaurangy area around 5:00pm.

He said that as he stepped in to save the two from harassment, the BCL men assaulted him.

"The situation was brought under control after some senior students reached there and rescued me," the teacher said.   

Campus sources said the assaulters are residents of Al Biruni Hall and followers of BCL JU unit vice-president Ariful Islam. They are Abu Sadat Sayem, a master's student of government and politics; Jahid Hasan and Jamshed Alam, second-year students of Bangla and international relations respectively.

The BCL men, however, denied the allegations and said it was the teacher who hurled abuse at them.

JU Proctor Prof Tapan Kumar Saha said they did not yet get any formal complaint about the incident. He said legal action would be taken after proper investigation into the matter.