Government Titumir College’s student Siddiqur Rahman, who received serious tear shell injuries in his eyes in police action at Shahbagh intersection in the city on Thursday, will not be able to get back to eyesight, a physician said on Saturday.
“The hope for getting back Siddiqur’s eyesight is now faint. We have conducted a surgery on his eye from 9.30am to 11am. But the possibility to get back his normal eyesight is dim. His one eye has been surgically repaired while the other was washed”, Dr Iftekhar Md Munir, an associate professor at the National Institute of Ophthalmology (NIO), told journalists yesterday.
Replying to a query, the physician said they have formed a five-member medical board for his treatment.
“But Siddiqur needs a long time for his eye treatment,” Iftekhar said, adding that the student’s eyes received injuries by some thick and heavy objects. The physician also said his eyes and face were swollen due to the injury.
Police on Thursday lobbed tear gas shells and fired rubber bullets to disperse the agitating students from newly affiliated seven government colleges with Dhaka University.
The students clashed with police as the law enforcers intercepted while staging demonstration to realise their demands.
During the clash Siddiqur received serious injuries in his eye when police lobbed a teargas shell on the students. Siddiqur is undergoing treatment at the NIO.
Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia on Saturday said, “Police claimed that Siddiqur might have been hurt by heavy object hurled by his fellows when law enforcers tried to disperse them firing teargas canisters.”
“We will take proper actions after investigating the incident,” he added.
But the students, who were agitating at Shahbagh intersection on Thursday rejected the police’s claim saying the cops lobbed several rounds of tear gas shells targeting them.
They said Siddiqur was hit by the teargas shell lobbed by police.
Police also filed a case against around 1,200 unnamed students of seven government colleges on charges of attempting to kill policemen, rioting with lethal weapons and damaging property.
Meanwhile, Students of Dhaka College on Saturday staged demonstration in front of the college in the city protesting attack on fellow students of seven colleges.
