Jessore Correspondent :
At least 10 students were injured when the police charged batons on them and other students of Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) on Tuesday to free the confined Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Abdus Sattar. The administration, meanwhile, closed the university till May 11, police and university sources said, calling it summer vacation.
The police went for action to restore discipline and to free the confined VC, said Ilias Hossain, Officer in-Charge of Kotwali police station around 6pm.
Twenty-seven students were taken to the Kotwali police station after freeing the vice-chancellor from confinement. But no case was lodged, the OC added.
The agitating students kept the vice-chancellor under confinement in his office for four hours from 9am.
When phone call was given to the vice-chancellor, Kamrul Hasan, personal secretary (PS) to the VC told that he (VC) was in a meeting. The PS, however, told that the authority of the university had declared the varsity closed till May 11 from April 27.
The male students of the university have been asked to leave the hall-Shahid Mashiur Rahman Hall by 6pm on Tuesday, while the females have been asked to leave the hall-Sheikh Hasina Hall by 9am on Wednesday, he said.
At least 10 students were injured when the police charged batons on them and other students of Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) on Tuesday to free the confined Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Abdus Sattar. The administration, meanwhile, closed the university till May 11, police and university sources said, calling it summer vacation.
The police went for action to restore discipline and to free the confined VC, said Ilias Hossain, Officer in-Charge of Kotwali police station around 6pm.
Twenty-seven students were taken to the Kotwali police station after freeing the vice-chancellor from confinement. But no case was lodged, the OC added.
The agitating students kept the vice-chancellor under confinement in his office for four hours from 9am.
When phone call was given to the vice-chancellor, Kamrul Hasan, personal secretary (PS) to the VC told that he (VC) was in a meeting. The PS, however, told that the authority of the university had declared the varsity closed till May 11 from April 27.
The male students of the university have been asked to leave the hall-Shahid Mashiur Rahman Hall by 6pm on Tuesday, while the females have been asked to leave the hall-Sheikh Hasina Hall by 9am on Wednesday, he said.
