Wednesday's Incident at BAU
Teachers' ultimatum to arrest culprits by March 21
Teachers of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) yesterday gave an ultimatum to the vice-chancellor (VC) demanding arrest of the culprits, who were responsible for Wednesday night's clash on the campus, by March 21.
They gave the ultimatum through a memorandum handed over to the VC in the afternoon.
Before handing over of the memorandum, the teachers under the banner of BAU Shikkhak Parishad held a meeting at the gallery of Animal Husbandry Faculty at noon. They threatened a tougher agitation if their demand was not met within the deadline.
Presided over by BAU Shikkhak Parishad president Prof Md Zohir Uddin, the meeting was also addressed by, among others, Prof Emdadul Haque, BAU Proctor Prof Dr Md Shamsuddin, Prof Dr Mansurul Amin, Prof Dr Abdul Moin Miah, Dr AKM Zakir Hossain, Dr Md Moinuddin and Prof Avijit Saha.
Protesting the incident, different student organisations brought out separate processions on the campus yesterday. They urged the university authorities to bring culprits to book immediately.
About 50 people, including assistant proctor, students and police, were injured in an attack by the outsiders over holding a programme marking the birth anniversary of Bangabandu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on BAU campus Wednesday night, university sources said.
Outsiders aided by shopkeepers of KR market on BAU campus wanted to organise a function to celebrate Bangabandhu's birth anniversary without prior permission of the university authorities, sources said.
Being informed, assistant proctor Prof Alamgir Hossain went to the spot. At one stage of altercation, outsiders attacked him as well as the students and employees present there.
Meanwhile, a five-member probe body was formed yesterday to investigate into the incident.
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