Islamic University in Kushtia
Criminals ransack rooms of TSCC, torch 2 vehicles
Criminals set this bus afire during vandalism on the campus of Islamic University in Kushtia on Wednesday night.Photo: STAR
Unidentified criminals torched two vehicles and ransacked several rooms of the Teacher-student Cultural Centre (TSCC) on Islamic University (IU) campus on Wednesday night. Campus sources said the criminals entered the TSCC by breaking open the lock of the collapsible gate and damaged four rooms and some important documents. They also set a bus and an ambulance, kept in front of the four-storey teachers' dormitory, afire. As the residents of the dormitory saw the vehicles in flames at around 12:30am, they informed the Kushtia fire brigade unit the IU Police Station. Being informed, a police team led by Officer-In-Charge (OC) Monir Uddin Mollah of IU Police Station rushed to the spot, but the fire fighters could not arrive in time as the fire service station is about 25 kilometres off the campus. TSCC Director Professor Selim Toha told this correspondent that criminals damaged furniture and important papers in four rooms of the centre. Contacted, Vice-Chancellor Professor M Alauddin, who is now in Dhaka, told this correspondent over cellphone that the university authorities would form a committee soon to probe the incident. The university authorities filed a case with IU police station yesterday morning, but police could not arrest any of the gang as of filing of this report at 5:00pm. OC Monir uddin said they have already launched a drive to arrest the culprits involved in vandalising the TSCC and torching the vehicles on IU campus. Meanwhile, most of the IU officials and employees cannot attend their offices since September 8 due to an indefinite transport strike on Kushtia-Jhenidah Road. Transport workers and owners enforced the strike as the students of Jessore Science and Technology University (JSTU) torched a bus on the road on September 7 protesting death of two students of the university in a road accident on the road on September 6. The university runs it transport pool by renting around 30 buses from Kushtia and Jhenidah transport associations. They stopped plying their vehicles on Kushtia-Jhenidah Road due to the strike.
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