USTC student put on two-day remand

A Chattogram court yesterday placed a student of University of Science and Technology of Chittagong (USTC), who allegedly poured kerosene on a professor’s body, on a two-day remand in a case filed over the incident with Khulshi Police Station.

Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Al Imran Khan passed the order against Mahmudul Hasan, a master’s student of English department. He was produced before the court with a five-day remand prayer, said Assistant Commissioner (prosecution) Kazi Shahbuddin Ahmed of Chattogram Metropolitan Police.

According to witnesses, some students staged a protest against Prof Masud Mahmood of English department on Tuesday, during which they assaulted the professor, and Mahmudul poured kerosene on him to set him on fire. The university authorities rescued Prof Mahmood and informed police who then arrested Mahmudul.

Prof Mahmood, who refrained from going to campus yesterday, told The Daily Star, “I am feeling unsure whether I should go to the university campus… they poured kerosene on me with an aim to kill me.”