SYLHET INT’L UNIV
Students rally for release four fellows
Students of privately-run Sylhet International University on Saturday went on demonstrations in the city and boycott academic activities demanding an immediate release of four of their fellows arrested on Thursday in conneciton with Jamaat’s general strike.
The students also exploded about 10 crude bombs in front of the university gate, creating a panic, campus sources said.
Witnesses said that a group of about 100 students had come out of the ampus about 9:00am and started rallying outside the gate demanding release of the fellows arrested on Thursday.
They shouted slogans in favour of their demand and said that they would launch a tougher movement if the authorities did not take steps for their release. They also exploded about 10 bombs, the sources said.
The police then reached the place and contained the situation. The Kotwali police officer-in-charge, Ahmed Nasir Uddin, told New Age that the demonstrators had left the place before the lawmen could reach there.
The university authorities later sat at an emergency meeting in the afternoon and decided to take punitive measures against the students and teachers who were involved in the demonstrations on Saturday, sources attending the meeting said.
The university’s proctorial body member Pranab Kanti Dev told New Age about 4:30pm, when the meeting was still going on, that the authorities ahd suspected the involvement of a specific quarter in the movement to create a chaos on the campus.
‘The meeting also decided to expel any teachers if found guilty of instigating students to carry out the movement,’ he added.
Campus sources said that the police had picked up eight students during the general strike the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Thursday.
The police later released four of them but arrested law students Fahim and Kibria and business administration students Sihab and Imran based on specific allegations against them, university officials said.
-With New Age input
