Punishment to 15 Students
Hajee Danesh university shut in face of agitation
Students of Hajee Danesh University of Science and Technology stage a sit-in in front of the administrative building yesterday demanding cancellation of the decision to punish 15 students.Photo: STAR
Hajee Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) was closed yesterday evening in face of continuous protest by students against the punishment of 15 students. The university will remain closed till 8 July. The HSTU authorities yesterday urged the students to vacate the residential halls of the university within 10:00am today. Protesting the closure of the university, the students again gathered at the university administrative building and confined about 12 teachers including the vice chancellor and the registrar. Till filing of this report yesterday evening, the students were continuing demonstration on the campus. Earlier, the educational activities at HSTU came to a halt as the students launched non-stop agitation. The HSTU authorities punished 15 students of the university on Thursday on charge of violating the academic discipline. Of them, one student was fined Tk 6000, nine students temporarily expelled and fined Tk 5,000 each and scholarships of five students were cancelled. On Sunday, the students, in a letter, urged the HSTU authorities to cancel the punishment decision but to no effect. The next day, the students held a press conference at Dinajpur press club and announced tougher programme to realise their demands. Yesterday morning, the students started boycotting the classes for indefinite period. They also threatened to go for fast unto death from this morning to realise their demand. They were also supposed to observe a daylong hartal at HSTU today. Sources said, the students of different faculties yesterday brought out a protest procession on the university campus chanting slogans against the decision. Later the agitating students besieged the administrative building of the university and observed a sit-in in front of the building. No classes were held yesterday and a large number of police was deployed at HSTU to avert any untoward incident.
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