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Published : 07 Mar 2026, 06:02 PM
The Islamic University (IU) administration has formed a five-member committee to investigate the murder of Asma Sadia Runa, the social welfare department chairman who was stabbed to death in her office.
The authorities held an emergency meeting on Saturday afternoon to form the committee. Acting Registrar Prof Manjurul Haque confirmed.
Prof Mizanoor Rahman of the accounting and information systems department has been appointed as the convenor, while Deputy Registrar Golam Mowla will serve as the member-secretary.
Other members of the committee include Prof Rashiduzzaman, Student Advisor Prof Obayedul Islam, and Lalon Shah Hall Provost Gazi Arifuzzaman Khan.
Teachers, students, and relatives of the victim held a human chain outside the Kushtia Press Club on Saturday, demanding the arrest and exemplary punishment of the killers.
Runa was stabbed to death at the Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies building on Wednesday afternoon.
A university employee, Fazlur Rahman, allegedly stabbed her and then tried to take his own life.
Following her burial on Thursday, Runa’s husband, Imtiaz Sultan, filed a case naming four suspects.
The complaint alleges that Fazlur, a former master-roll employee recently transferred to the political science department, carried out the attack under the "direct provocation and instruction" of three colleagues.
The brutal murder was not a random act of violence but the result of a "premeditated plot" fuelled by administrative rivalry and a staff member's personal grievance, the murder case alleged.
The suspects in the case are teachers Shyam Sundar Sarkar, Biswajit Kumar Biswas, and Habibur Rahman. Fazlur is the prime suspect in the case.
