RAJSHAHI, Sept 02 (bdnews24.com): Twenty people, including eight Rajshahi University (RU) teachers, have been accused in two separate cases of breaching emergency powers rules during the recent student protests.
Following the student protests at Dhaka University (DU), clashes erupted on RU campus which resulted in the fatal shooting of a rickshaw driver by police on August 22.
Metropolitan magistrate's court inspector Mahbubul Quddus Siddiqui told bdnews24.com that the charge sheets were submitted Saturday.
Motihar police sub-inspector Faruk Hossain filed one of the cases citing vandalism, while DGFI assistant director Shawkat Ali filed the second case on charges of setting a DGFI vehicle ablaze.
Charges of vandalism have been brought against former RU vice chancellor Saidur Rahman Khan-also a member of the Awami League's council of advisers-convener of RU's Progressive Teachers Community Abdus Sobhan and associate professor of the management department Moloy Kumar Bhowmik.
Associate professors Dulal Chandra Biswas and Selim Reza Newton, and assistant professor Abdullah Al Mamun of the mass communication and journalism department have also been included in the charge sheet, according to the investigation officer SI Nasir Uddin.
Eight RU teachers among 20 sued for Rajshahi student protests
FE Team | Published: September 03, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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