Rayhanul Islam :
Students at the Bangladesh University for Engineering and Technology (BUET) continued to boycott classes and labs for the last 22 consecutive days demanding fulfillment of their main three point demands.
Meanwhile, the BUET administration has fulfilled their five point demands out of the total eight demands.
Several BUET students, who are involved in the protest programme, said if their three point demands are not meet, their protest would continue for an indefinite period.
The three demands are ensuring punishment to son of an employee and his associates, publication of probe report in short time and construction of a gate at all entry points to prevent outsiders from entering the campus.
The BUET students had clashed with the students tied to Dhaka University’s Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haque Hall over a ‘drive to remove outsiders’ on October 26-27. Five BUET students were injured in the incident.
Since October 29, BUET students have been boycotting classes and labs, demanding that those involved in the incident be brought to book.
Ahasan Rabby Khan, a student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department and one of the organizers, told The New Nation that the administration has already fulfilled their five point demands out of total eight demands.
“But our main three demands like punishment to son of an employee Raju and his associates Arnab, Nakib, Shuvo and Foysal, publication of probe report in short time and construction of a gate at all every entry points to prevent outsiders from entering the campus,” he said.
Rabby also said, police detained Raju, but he was released on bail afterwards as the case was filed against him by the administration with simple grounds. But he did offense like an attempt to murder.
The administration has repeatedly made promises and ordered students to return to classes, but have not met all of the demands, also a convener and Mechanical Engineering Department student Partha Pritom Das told to The New Nation.
Dhaka University and BUET have each formed a committee to investigate the incident. But neither has submitted a report, even after three weeks have passed.
The probe committee led by Zahurul Haque Hall Residential Teacher Abdur Rahim was supposed to turn up with his report within a week after the incident.
The committee interviewed eyewitnesses, hall staff and students on October 28, 29 and 31 and November 6 and November 7.
Abdur Rahim told to The New Nation, we need more time as the matter is complicated. It has become even more complicated since CCTV footage of the BUET students’ violence was leaked on the Internet.”
“The BUET administration is yet to give us entirety the CCTV footage. As the incident occurred on the BUET campus it is mainly their responsibility. They will be able to give a clear idea of how it started. We are investigating if any of our students are involved,” he said.’
“I don’t know,” said Student Welfare Director Prof Satya Prasad Majumder when asked about the issue. “This is under the registrar’s control. Contact them.”
“I cannot say anything about the probe,” said Registrar Prof Md Saidur Rahman. “We have a Student Welfare director who handles such things.”
“I do not have the jurisdiction to discuss this matter,” he said after he was told that Prof Majumder referred journalists to him.
None of the officials and staff at the Registrar’s Office and the Directorate of Student Welfare is willing to speak to journalists.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof Saiful Islam, did not received mobile phone call, despite several time attempts for comments.
Students at the Bangladesh University for Engineering and Technology (BUET) continued to boycott classes and labs for the last 22 consecutive days demanding fulfillment of their main three point demands.
Meanwhile, the BUET administration has fulfilled their five point demands out of the total eight demands.
Several BUET students, who are involved in the protest programme, said if their three point demands are not meet, their protest would continue for an indefinite period.
The three demands are ensuring punishment to son of an employee and his associates, publication of probe report in short time and construction of a gate at all entry points to prevent outsiders from entering the campus.
The BUET students had clashed with the students tied to Dhaka University’s Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haque Hall over a ‘drive to remove outsiders’ on October 26-27. Five BUET students were injured in the incident.
Since October 29, BUET students have been boycotting classes and labs, demanding that those involved in the incident be brought to book.
Ahasan Rabby Khan, a student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department and one of the organizers, told The New Nation that the administration has already fulfilled their five point demands out of total eight demands.
“But our main three demands like punishment to son of an employee Raju and his associates Arnab, Nakib, Shuvo and Foysal, publication of probe report in short time and construction of a gate at all every entry points to prevent outsiders from entering the campus,” he said.
Rabby also said, police detained Raju, but he was released on bail afterwards as the case was filed against him by the administration with simple grounds. But he did offense like an attempt to murder.
The administration has repeatedly made promises and ordered students to return to classes, but have not met all of the demands, also a convener and Mechanical Engineering Department student Partha Pritom Das told to The New Nation.
Dhaka University and BUET have each formed a committee to investigate the incident. But neither has submitted a report, even after three weeks have passed.
The probe committee led by Zahurul Haque Hall Residential Teacher Abdur Rahim was supposed to turn up with his report within a week after the incident.
The committee interviewed eyewitnesses, hall staff and students on October 28, 29 and 31 and November 6 and November 7.
Abdur Rahim told to The New Nation, we need more time as the matter is complicated. It has become even more complicated since CCTV footage of the BUET students’ violence was leaked on the Internet.”
“The BUET administration is yet to give us entirety the CCTV footage. As the incident occurred on the BUET campus it is mainly their responsibility. They will be able to give a clear idea of how it started. We are investigating if any of our students are involved,” he said.’
“I don’t know,” said Student Welfare Director Prof Satya Prasad Majumder when asked about the issue. “This is under the registrar’s control. Contact them.”
“I cannot say anything about the probe,” said Registrar Prof Md Saidur Rahman. “We have a Student Welfare director who handles such things.”
“I do not have the jurisdiction to discuss this matter,” he said after he was told that Prof Majumder referred journalists to him.
None of the officials and staff at the Registrar’s Office and the Directorate of Student Welfare is willing to speak to journalists.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof Saiful Islam, did not received mobile phone call, despite several time attempts for comments.
