Torture on students: CMC forms nine-member probe committee

The Chattogram Medical College (CMC) authorities have entrusted the CMC Grievance Redressal Committee to probe into the torture on four CMC students in a dormitory.

The CMC Academic Council took the decision in a meeting yesterday, said college principal Prof Shahena Akhter.

The nine-member committee -- headed by CMC Vice Principal Prof Hafizul Islam -- was asked to submit its probe report in three working days, she said.

Asked about the two students admitted to the ICU, she said they were doing well.

Pranoy Kumar Dutta, associate professor of ICU and Anesthesiology at CMCH, echoed the same.

Contacted, Manjur Quader, officer-in-charge of Chawkbazar Police Station, said no case was filed in this connection till yesterday afternoon. "We are looking into the incident," he said.

According to CMC sources, the activists of Chhatra League confined the four students -- Zahid Hossain Wakil, Sakib Hossain, MA Raihan and Mobashwer Hossain Shubhra -- to a room of the hostel from Wednesday midnight to Thursday evening and beat them, suspecting that they were Shibir activists.

However, Abhijit Das, a BCL leader at CMC, denied the allegation.