6 JU students suspended
Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have suspended six students for their involvement in beating up a campus correspondent of a national daily over a trivial matter, a press release said yesterday.
After the news spread, a group of students brought out a procession in protest against the decision and blocked Dhaka-Aricha highway. They also assaulted an assistant proctor and an official.
Of the accused, four were suspended for six months. They are Md Nahid Hossain and Mohammad Majed Simanto of accounting and information system, Mohammad Mashiur Rahman Rojel of archaeology department and Md Rashedul Haque Pias of government and politics department.
The two others are Md Shamim Hossain of geology department and Mohammad Manirul Islam of management studies. They were suspended for three moths.
All the six were also fined Tk 5,000 each for the same offence, the statement said.
All the accused students were directly involved in the beating of Daily Janakantha's Ahmed Riyad, a geography department student, at the university's central playground on November 22 last year, said the statement, signed by Registrar Abu Bakar Siddique.
The decision came from a Syndicate meeting on March 10 following a probe report, it added.
The victim journalist yesterday claimed that the accused were activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League.
Contacted, Vice Chancellor Shariff Enamul Kabir denied the allegation and said they were supporters of neither Chhatra League nor Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal.
Meanwhile, students, led by self-declared Chhatra League activist Mithun Kundu, started demonstration demanding withdrawal of the decision.
They also physically harassed Assistant Proctor Md Saiful Islam and Nahidur Rahman Khan Sagor, an administrative official of the university.
Later, Proctor Sukollan Kundu brought the situation under control.
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