Jagannath University expels BCL activist over attack on bdnews24.com journalist

Jagannath University authorities have expelled pro-government Bangladesh Chhatra League activist Imran Biswas over hacking bdnews24.com journalist Kazi Mobarak Hossan.

University Vice Chancellor Mizanur Rahman disclosed the decision to correspondents of different media outlets who met him on Tuesday to demand punishment for those who attacked Hossain a day earlier.
 
He said, "Imran Biswas has been expelled temporarily on primary information."
 
The vice chancellor said the university 'is forming' a committee to probe into the matter.
 
Those who will be found to have been involved in the incident will be rusticated, he added.
 

Meanwhile, Jagannath University Journalists Association (JUTA) took out a protest procession, formed a human chain and wore black badges on Tuesday demanding that the attackers be punished.

bdnews24.com Staff Correspondent Hossain earlier said a group of Chhatra League activists, equipped with machetes, iron rods and batons, attacked him in front of the university's main gate.

Hossain, a former chemistry department student of the university and ex-president of JUTA, went to his alma mater to withdraw his certificate.

He was admitted to Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital with injuries on his forehead, head, back and legs.

Hossain filed a case with Kotwali police accusing the university’s law department student Imran Biswas and several others for ‘attempting to murder him’.

He said that his fellow journalists caught Biswas after the attack but Chhatra League leaders freed him.

Kotwali police earlier said they would take legal action ‘immediately’.