Staff Reporter :The Dhaka University (DU) students on Tuesday strongly protested the police’s excesses on their fellows at Karwan Bazar in the city. They also sought legal actions against the police personnel who assaulted the students indiscriminately on Monday. The demand came from a human-chain in front of the Teacher-Student Center (TSC) on the DU campus in the morning.They agitated students called the police behave unprofessional and inhuman and demanded that they (police) should say ‘sorry’ for their behavior. On Monday, a group of DU students blocked Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue at SAARC Fountain intersection at Karwan Bazar in protest against an alleged police assault on some of their fellow students.The DU students alleged that the police beat them mercilessly dragging them down from their university bus at the intersection following an altercation over traffic movement. They also alleged the law enforcers took away their cell phones during the altercation. Police, however, denied the allegation.It was alleged that three police men and an Ansar member swooped on the students even after the dispute was resolved and beat them up mercilessly.
