JU suspends 5 BCL men
The authorities of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday suspended five students, all activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at JU, for their involvement in two separate incidents including assault, mugging and attempted kidnap.
The authorities also formed a three-member probe committee and asked it to submit its report within 15 days, said Rohima Kaniz, acting registrar of JU.
She also said Vice Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam made the decisions exercising her executive power.
Four of the suspended students are residents of Shaheed Rafiq Jabbar Hall and loyal to SM Abu Sufiyan Chanchal, general secretary of BCL's JU unit. They are Ya Rafiu Sikder, Mostafizur Rahman and Shohel Rana -- first-year students at Public Administration department; and Shuvashish Ghosh, a third-year student at Bangla department.
The fifth suspended student, Zahidul Islam Sojol, a fourth-year student at Accounting and Information Systems (AIS), is loyal to JU BCL president Jewel Rana.
In the first incident, on September 24, a group of BCL activists including Sikder, Mostafizur, Shohel and Shuvashish beat up Mahmudul Haque Sohag, a master's student of Journalism and Media Studies (JMS) department and also a correspondent of an online news portal, as he tried to protect a visiting couple from being assaulted and mugged by the BCL activists.
Another female student of the JMS department was also assaulted in the same incident.
In the other incident, on September 27, Zahidul and three of his accomplices tried to kidnap a female student of AIS department from in front of Al-Beruni Hall on the campus. General students soon came to her rescue and roughed up Zahidul.
Zahidul had been stalking her for a long time, alleged the student's family in a case filed with police.
Meanwhile, victims of the incidents alleged that the suspension of only five BCL activists is an eyewash as the names of two other offenders including Nezam Uddin Niloy (who led the attack on September 24), mentioned in the first office order, have been dropped from the newly issued office order of the authorities.
However, Shikder Md Zulkarnine, proctor of JU, said before the suspension order, they had mentioned names of seven students to the JU authorities.
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