Dhaka University charges 50 students for vandalism

The Dhaka University authorities have charged 50 students with vandalising the gate of the proctor’s office during protests against alleged attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders.

The students also demonstrated on the campus on Thursday midnight on hearing about the news of the police case.

The university’s Security Officer Md Kamrul Ahsan Khan started the case in the afternoon without naming any of the accused at Shahbagh Police Station, OC Abul Hasan told bdnews24.com.

The midnight demonstrators also demanded resignation of Proctor AKM Golam Rabbani.

They announced a torch procession on Friday afternoon to press for several demands.

A group of Dhaka University students have been demonstrating for several days demanding that it cut the affiliation with the seven government colleges in the capital.

Leaders of the BCL’s DU unit pulled Institute of Information Technology student Moshiur Rahman Sadi, who was coordinating the protests against the university’s affiliation with the colleges, inside the VC’s office on Monday during protests.

He was confined for a day at Shahbagh Police Station and then handed to his family on Tuesday night.

On Monday, the protesting students alleged the BCL leaders, including some female ones, also assaulted the female students demonstrating in front of the VC’s office.

On Wednesday, the students protesting also against the BCL assault besieged the proctor in his office.

They tore down the collapsible gate of the building after the authorities locked it seeing them coming.

They suspended the protests after Vice-Chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman assured them of investigating the alleged BCL assault.

The VC told bdnews24.com on Thursday night that the authorities had formed a committee to probe the allegation of BCL attack.

Proctor Rabbani, however, said they had also formed another committee to investigate Thursday’s vandalism.