Staff Reporter :
Police on Sunday charged batons on the job-seeking doctors who brought out a procession on the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) premises demanding cancellation of the viva voce scheduled to begin today (Monday).
The demonstrated doctors sought holding fresh recruitment tests alle4ging anomalies in the previous arrangement of the examination system in this regard.
At least 15 agitated physicians received injuries as members of the law enforcing agencies carried out attack to disperse them, witnesses said.
The physicians alleged that police used stick on them when they tried to proceed towards the Vice-Chancellor’s office, that left at least 15 physicians injured.
BSMMU Vice-Chancellor Kanak Kanti Barua apprehended that the incident was to foil the Monday’s viva voce for physicians recruitment test.
Law enforcing members were asked to alert on the campus to maintain the law and order as per detective report as law enforcers recovered a petrol bomb in front of the Registrar Room on the third floor of the administrative building, the VC said.
On March 20, the results of the selection test for recruiting medical officers and dentists were published.
Some 820 candidates have passed in the written test. They were asked to attend the oral test for 50. But, the disqualified candidates rejected the results bringing allegation of irregularities and began the movement.
