Arrest real culprits involved in attack on Azad

Azad Mancha, a platform for the agitating DU students, placed a 13-point demand and the BCL, student wing of the opposition Awami league, placed a 12-point demand.

The common demands include resignation of the home minister, investigation into police atrocities on the agitating students, punishment to the JCD men for the attack on students, release of all students and leaders and medical expenses for the injured students.

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The BCL also threatened to go for an indefinite strike if the demands go unheeded.

Earlier, Azad Mancha and the BCL took out separate processions on the campus.

The BCL also held a rally where its President Liaqat Sikder, General Secretary Nazrul Islam Babu, Saifuzzaman Shekhar, Ashraful Azim, Rafiqul Islam, Delwar Hossain and Hemayet Uddin Khan Himu spoke.

Samajtantrik Chhatra Front (SCF), a left-leaning student wing, also demanded immediate release of all its leaders and Progotishil Chhatra Jote leaders who were arrested during demonstrations on the campus.

Police have tortured the arrested leaders severely in their custody, the SCF leaders said at a press conference.

They demanded that the writer be sent abroad for treatment and the real culprits be brought to book immediately.

They also called for resignation of the home minister.

The SCF will stage countrywide demonstrations from March 11 to 24 to press home their demands.

It will also hold solidarity rally on March 15 and stage sit-in at the DCs' office across the country on March 24.

A JCD activist, meanwhile, began a hunger strike at the foot of Aparajeyo Bangla demanding immediate resumption of classes.

The activist, Abu Toyeb Habilder, is a second year student of Persian and Urdu department.

The students of fourth year at a rally yesterday hailed the decision of DU Teachers' Association to exempt the examinations from its ongoing strike.

They also called on the teachers to return to classes.

They urged the university authorities to send the injured writer abroad for treatment.