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22 private university students sent to jail over violent protests
A Dhaka court has ordered 22 students of private universities into jail after two days of grilling in police custody in two cases over violence during protests for safe roads on Monday.
Published : 9 August 2018, 03:11 PM
Updated : 9 August 2018, 04:08 PM
Judge Satyabrata Sikder of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court passed the orders rejecting bail pleas of 20 students on Thursday.
He set Sunday to hear bail appeals of two others. No-one of the accused were produced in the court.
Defence lawyers, including former Dhaka Bar Council chief Abdur Rahman Howlader, argued that the identity of the accused as student was not mentioned in the case documents.
In addition, the charges against the students were not specific, they added.
Court police’s General Recording Officer Sub-Inspector Md Abu Hanif opposed the bail pleas at the hearing.
“They did not act like students. They created disorder to topple the government and will do it again if they get bail,” he argued.
The students from the East West, North South, South East and BRAC universities in the capital are accused of attacking police and vandalising properties during protests for safe roads.
Fourteen of the accused were arrested in a case started at Badda Police Station and the others in Bhatara Police Station.
They have been identified as Ridwan Ahmed, Masad Mortuza Bin Ahad, Foyez Ahmed Adnan, Azizul Hakim, Rislatul Ferdous, Rashedul Islam, ‘Bayezid’, Mushfiqur Rahman, Iftekhar Ahmed, Reza Rifat Akhlaq, AHM Khalid Reza, Tariqul Islam, Noor Mohammad, Simanta Sarker, Iktider Hossain, Jahidul Haque, ‘Hasan’, Saber Ahmed, Mehedi Hasan, Shihab Shahriar, Shakhawat Hossain and Aminul Ehsan.
The students protesting for road safety measures and justice for traffic accidents clashed with police in the university areas on the ninth day of the movement on Monday.
Police are investigating a total of 29 cases over violence during the protests triggered by deaths of two students in a road accident at Kurmitola in Dhaka on July 29.
On Wednesday, the vice-chancellors of the private universities urged the government to pardon the protesters.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid rejected the call saying ‘criminals’ must be brought to justice.
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