Diaz murder case: Mother goes on hunger strike in Ctg

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UNB, Chittagong :
Mother of slain Chittagong University BCL leader Diaz Irfan Chowdhury went on hunger strike on the university campus on Monday morning demanding arrest of killers of her son and removal of university vice chancellor and proctor.
Wearing funeral dress Diaz’s mother Jaheda Amin Chowdhury started the hunger strike in front of registrar office of Bangabandhu Chattar at 9am.
She continued her strike till filing of this report at 3 pm despite the university
authorities’ efforts to end the hunger strike. Mahfuzur Rahman Khokon, President of University Officers’ Association, said Diaz’s mother started the strike in the morning carrying a banner demanding the arrest of the killers.
On November 20 last, the body of Diaz, assistant secretary of the central BCL committee and joint secretary of CU unit BCL, was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his bedroom at his family’s rented house in Gate-2 area of the Chittagong University.
On November 23 last, the Forensic Department of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) that conducted the 1st postmortem described the incident as a suicide in its report.
However, his family members rejected the autopsy report, alleging that he had been murdered in a planned way by his rivals following a dispute over tender for the construction of some university buildings.
According to the 2nd autopsy report done by the Forensic Medicine Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), the BCL leader was murdered. The report was published on July 30.
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