Apr 5 Clashes, Vandalism on Campus
KU permanently expels 4 students, punishes 30
Khulna University authorities on Tuesday permanently expelled four students and took punitive measures against 30 others for their involvement in an untoward incident on the campus on April 5 this year.
This decision was taken at the 143rd meeting of the university syndicate with Vice-Chancellor Prof Mohammod Saifuddin Shah in the chair.
According to the syndicate decision, classes of the university, shut on April 5 after the incident, will resume on June 13. All dormitories of the university will also reopen at 7 am on the previous day.
Students will have to keep with them their identity card, library card or medical card for entering dormitories and campus.
The university syndicate in its meeting also declared cell phone flexiload trader Shahnewaz unwanted on the campus. Shahnewaz is staff photographer of Khulna bureau office of a Dhaka based daily. The four students permanently expelled from the university are Abir Hossain Talukder of Urban Planning, Golam Faruque of Social Science, Saiful Islam Bappi of Business Administration and Zakaria Jaber of Architecture department.
Besides, seven students have been expelled for two years and fined Tk. 15,000 each, in default, to face expulsion for more one year, 13 students for one year and fined Tk. 15,000 each while 10 others fined Tk. 15,000 each as their involvement was proved beyond doubt by the probe committee.
The authoriaes also exempted eight others from punishment. The punished students are not allowed to enter the campus without prior permission. However, they can appeal as per rule to Academic Council against their punishment, the VC said.
Earlier, the Vice Chancellor formed a seven-member committee on April 6 to probe the untoward incident of April 5. Forty-two students were served with show cause notices suspecting their involvement in the vandalism.
On April 5, a few students of the university locked in an alteration with flexiload shop owner Shahnewaz over non-payment of dues.
At a stage it turned into a fierce clash between two groups forcing the authorities to shut the university indefinitely.
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