The founding chairman of the university's Criminology Department passes away in hospital care after suffering a heart attack
A professor of skin and venereal diseases Zakaria is a joint general secretary of the Awami League-backed doctors’ group, Swachip.
He earlier served as a proctor of the university, but resigned citing “personal grounds” last year soon after the appointment of the new vice-chancellor Prof Kamrul Hassan Khan in March.
He passed his MBBS from Sir Salimullah Medical College in 1988.