RU mayhem: 6 cases filed accusing 475 people
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Six cases have been filed accusing some 475 people, 105 of them named, a day after agitating students were attacked at Rajshahi University (RU). The university administration, police and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) filed the cases with Motihar Police Station in Rajshahi city on charges of attacking a procession, creating unrest on the campus, exploding bombs and obstructing the police. Though none was named in the four cases filed by the university administration and police, the Islami Chhatra Shibir leaders were made accused in the two cases filed by the BCL – the student wing of Awami League. Over 50 RU students and several journalists were injured on Sunday, as the BCL men attacked the students protesting fee hikes and evening shift master’s courses. The authorities on Sunday night closed the university for an indefinite period and ordered the resident students to vacate halls by 8am on Monday. Though the university and police on Sunday did not want to accuse the protesting students, the students feared that they might be made suspects in the cases. Sub-Inspector of the Motihar Police Station Monirul Islam said six cases were filed against 105 named and 370 unidentified people. RU unit Chhatra League Vice-President Tanmayananda Avi on Monday evening filed two cases accusing 10 people, including the university unit Shibir President Ashraful Alam Emon, and 60 to 70 unnamed persons of attacking the procession with bombs to create chaos on the campus. Motihar police SI Chittaranjan Saha said they had filed two cases on charges of obstructing government work, assault on police, and under the Explosives Act, according to bdnews24.com.