JU BCL beats up journo again

A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men of Jahangirnagar University yesterday assaulted a campus-based reporter for videotaping the beating of an outsider.

Muhammad Musa is the JU correspondent of the Daily Kalbela and a third year student of economics. He was rescued by general students and journalists, from the BCL group led by JU unit general secretary Razib Ahmed Rasel and organising secretary Murshidur Rahman Akanda.

Musa was videotaping the beating of one Fazle Rabbi, an outsider who was allegedly extorting the drivers of BRTC buses on the highway in front of the university main gate.

Musa said he caught the youth and was taking him to the proctor's office when the BCL group snatched him away and started beating the youth. He then started videotaping the beating. Musa said, “They slapped, punched and kicked me because I was taking the video footage, despite knowing my identity.”

The JU BCL general secretary, Rasel, said junior activists beat up Musa taking him as an extorter. After knowing his identity, they stopped, he added.  

However, Musa, the BCL organising secretary, denied the allegation.

Proctor Prof Tapan Kumar Saha assured action after the reporter filed a complaint He added, “We already handed the youth (Rabbi) over to Ashulia police.”