Staff Reporter :
A case was filed in connection with a factional clash taking place on Monday between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) workers at Sylhet MC College that left at least 15 activists from both the groups injured.
Seventeen leaders and activists of the BCL, including BCL’s Sylhet district unit General Secretary Rayhan Chowdhury, were sued in the case. The case was filed with Shahporan Police Station. Rubel Ahmed, an activist of the organisation, filed the case on Monday night, Officer-in-Charge of the police station Nizam Uddin Chowdhury told the media on Tuesday.
According to the police and the BCL leaders, the clash took place on the MC College campus on Monday over establishing supremacy. During the clash, two BCL activists received serious bullet injuries. They are Khairul Alam Shaheen and Ratan Gupto. They were admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital. Shaheen has been shifted to Dhaka.
Police said that the fighting took place between the factions of Raihan Chowdhury and former district unit President Hiron Mahmud Nipu. Incumbent Joint-Secretary Kamrul Islam is now leading the Nipu’s group and the bullet hit two BCL men are supporters of the group.
Campus sources said that a supporter of Nipu had an altercation with Rayhan on the campus. Later, activists of both the groups were locked in the clash. Witnesses said that the BCL men used machetes, sticks, iron rods, and shotguns. It was linked to Sunday’s incident of an activist of Raihan’s faction slapping a senior activist loyal to Kamrul.
On information, police rushed to the spot and fired gunshots to bring the situation under control. Police arrested two BCL men in connection with the incident. They are Taj Uddin and Safayet Hossain Pulok.
OC Nizam Uddin said it was linked to the establishing supremacy on the campus. Abdus Samad, president of Sylhet district BCL, said that the fighting was centered on an altercation over a senior-junior issue.
