BUET students seek PM's intervention for their safety

A group of students from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has placed an appeal before the Prime Minister for safety of their lives as a barrage of veiled life threats against them kept flooding social media particularly from handles and account0s known as mouthpiece affiliated with extremist and radical outfits, reports UNB.

Even Basherkella, that held record of spreading hate speech and communal attacks, associated with a dreaded outfit Jamaat-e-Islami, launched a targeted attack with photos and names of the students circulated on different platforms including Telegram channels.

Linking the pattern similar to previous attacks on two BUET students who were vocal against these outfits in the past, they observed that they had every reason to take these threats seriously.

The students made the demand at a press conference held at the Shaheed Minar on the BUET campus on Friday as they earlier submitted a complaint with the vice chancellor compiling screenshot of threats and bullying against them.

Days back, they submitted a written complaint with the vice chancellor where they mentioned names of 21 students who faced similar threats against them.