CU student jumps off building to escape BCL men

A Chittagong University (CU) student yesterday jumped from a dormitory building and was injured allegedly while escaping from the captivity of some Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists.
The injured, Abul Hasnat, hailed from Mirsarai upazila in Chittagong and residing at Nayabazar in the port city, was a student of international relations department of CU and the former general secretary of CU Mirasarai Students' Association.
Hasnat said he went to the Faculty of Social Science to take part in his fourth-year final exam around 10:30am when some BCL activists forced him onto a rickshaw and took him to the fourth floor of Shahjalal Hall of the university,” said Hasnat.
“The activists led by BCL leader Rakib started to beat me and tried to lock me in a room. Getting a chance, I fled from the room. When I reached the second floor, I jumped from the building as the activists were chasing me,” he told The Daily Star over the phone.
He was rushed to the university medical centre and, later, shifted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for better treatment.
Hasnat said the BCL activists were forcing him to give them Tk 40,000 of the CU Mirsarai Students' Association that he held in his possession.
The association President Salim Uddin Riman, however, denied Hasnat's claim, saying that “Hasnat had intention to embezzle Tk 70,000 of the association's money and we tried to convince him several times to return the money.”
He also said Hasnat was injured after falling from the dormitory stairs.
Hathazari police said there is disagreement between the current body of the association and Hasnat.
Some members of the association, who had tried to realise the money from Hasnat a few days ago, made another attempt yesterday with the help of some BCL activists, police added.