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Unrest at RU students’ hall, 3 Shibir activists arrested
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists at Rajshahi University (RU) have beaten up activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir supporters in a students’ hall.
Published : 30 August 2015, 07:09 AM
Updated : 30 August 2015, 07:09 AM
A room of the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Hall was vandalised early on Sunday.
Police rushed to spot around 3am to control the situation.
“Tension erupted between activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and Islami Chhatra Shibir in that hall. We intervened and brought the situation under control,” said Motihar police OC Ashok Chouhan.
Chhatra League is the student front of the Awami League while Shibir is affiliated to Jamaat-e-Islami.
He said that three Shibir activists were detained. They are economics department’s Tanjir Ahmed, statistics student ‘Apon’ and Arabic department’s ‘Enayet’.
The three third-year students are now being interrogated by police, OC Chouhan said.
Some students of the hall told bdnews24.com that RU unit BCL Vice President Atiqur Rahman and his supporters stormed into the room on a tip-off that Shibir leader Abdus Salam has gathered there with some supporters. Salam, however, fled.
Later the BCL activists searched different rooms for Shibir activists.
They beat up Shibir activists Tanjir Ahmed, ‘Apon’ and Ashik.
Ashik, however, managed to escape.
BCL activists found Shibir literature in Room 419 and vandalised it.
Shibir activists Tanjir Ahmed and ‘Apon’ were handed over to police when they arrived there.
Police later conducted a search in the hall and detained another Shibir activist ‘Enayet’.
BCL leader Atiqur Rahman said that Shibir leader Salam had been threatening BCL activists in that hall over phone for quite some time.
“That’s why we went to get him, when Shibir activists attacked us. We then caught two Shibir activists and handed them to police,” said the RU unit BCL vice president.
The hall authorities said that the situation was now under control.
“There was some tension among students at night. Everything is normal now,” Provost Anil Chandra Deb told bdnews24.com.
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