Staff Reporter :
A legal notice has been served on the government and the Dhaka University authorities demanding adequate security for DUCSU Vice-President Nurul Haque Nur within seven days.
Otherwise appropriate legal steps will be taken against the respondents if they fail to provide adequate security to Nur in seven days, warned the legal notice.
Advocate Moniruzzaman Linkon, a Supreme Court (SC) lawyer, sent the notice to the Home Secretary, Vice-Chancellor and Proctor of the DU.
In the notice, he said that it is the constitutional duty implied upon the state to protect the life of all citizens. Nur is not a child of this country. He is also an institution as he has been representing general students of the DU.
Nur has faced heinous attacks several times. So special security measures should be taken for him, the lawyer said in the legal notice.
On December 22, activists of a fraction of Muktijuddho Moncho, most members whereof are Chhatra League men, again walloped and injured DUCSU Vice-President Nurul Haque Nur, storming into his office in the DUCSU building.
At least 27 of his supporters were injured in the attack carried out around 12:45 pm after DUCSU Assistant General Secretary and BCL leader Saddam Hussain threatened Nur of dire consequences if he didn’t leave his office.
Dhaka University Proctor Prof AKM Golam Rabbani went to the spot around 1:00 pm and sent 20 of the injured to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Of them, 14 were released after primary treatment, and six others, including Nur and Tuhin Farabi, were admitted to the hospital.
