BCL Beats up RU proctor, provost, house tutors to 'protest' hall raid
Rajshahi University unit Chhatra League cadres on Wednesday night beat up its proctor and his two assistants, a hall provost and two house tutors while police raided Shaheed Samsuzzoha Hall.
BCL cadres also vandalised the proctor office and an office room and the guest room of the hall.
Resident students of the hall said police along with the help of hall authorities and the proctorial body raided the hall around 11.30 pm on Wednesday night to pick up illegal residents.
Hearing the news of raid, BCL workers led by its president Awal Kabir Joy rushed to the hall. Joy asked hall provost Dr Mortuza Khaled as to they conducted the raid without his permission.
At one stage, they drove Mortuza out of the hall by holding his neck and beat up him and his two house tutors in front of police, resident students said.
They said BCL cadres also beat up Proctor Prof Chowdhury Zakaria and his two assistants while they were trying to resist the attack.Later, they vandalised proctor office and the hall rooms.Provost Mortuza Khaled admitted the matter but Proctor Zakaria declined to say anything to the reporters. RU unit BCL president Awal Kabir denied the allegation.
Meanwhile, Provost Council, an association of provosts from sixteen halls, at a meeting yesterday announced their work abstention for Saturday and demanded punishment to the attackers.
Earlier, the provost council led by its president Prof Belayet Hossain and steering committee members of Progressive Teachers' Society separately met RU VC Abdus Sobhan and demanded immediate action against the BCL workers.
BCL cadres also vandalised the proctor office and an office room and the guest room of the hall.
Resident students of the hall said police along with the help of hall authorities and the proctorial body raided the hall around 11.30 pm on Wednesday night to pick up illegal residents.
Hearing the news of raid, BCL workers led by its president Awal Kabir Joy rushed to the hall. Joy asked hall provost Dr Mortuza Khaled as to they conducted the raid without his permission.
At one stage, they drove Mortuza out of the hall by holding his neck and beat up him and his two house tutors in front of police, resident students said.
They said BCL cadres also beat up Proctor Prof Chowdhury Zakaria and his two assistants while they were trying to resist the attack.Later, they vandalised proctor office and the hall rooms.Provost Mortuza Khaled admitted the matter but Proctor Zakaria declined to say anything to the reporters. RU unit BCL president Awal Kabir denied the allegation.
Meanwhile, Provost Council, an association of provosts from sixteen halls, at a meeting yesterday announced their work abstention for Saturday and demanded punishment to the attackers.
Earlier, the provost council led by its president Prof Belayet Hossain and steering committee members of Progressive Teachers' Society separately met RU VC Abdus Sobhan and demanded immediate action against the BCL workers.
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