Four RU teachers freed from jail

Four Rajshahi University teachers jailed for inciting campus unrest were released from prison hours after president Iajuddin Ahmed Monday approved mercy petitions filed by their wives. Management teacher Moloy Kumar Bhowmik and mass communication teachers Selim Reza Newton, Dulal Chandra Biswas and Abdullah Al Mamun were released from Rajshahi Central Jail at 3:30pm. Relatives, colleagues and over 100 students thronged the main gate of the Rajshahi Central Jail at Shahed Bazar in the city expecting their release on new that the president had pardoned the teachers.