More than 100 teachers of the Dhaka University staged a sit-in on the street, in front of the TSC yesterday morning when police stopped a mourning procession brought out by them to protest Wednesday’s incidents on the campus.

The Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) later at an emergency general meeting decided that the DU teachers would not conduct any examinations of the university till February 8 as a large number of students, injured in police attack, were still under treatment.

The university teachers including the leaders of the DUTA gathered at the Apara-jeo Bangla and brought out the mourning procession at

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The police on duty halted the procession when it reached the DUS cafeteria near the Teachers' Students' Centre (TSC) The teachers’ procession was scheduled to end at the Central Shaheed Minar after marching through the TSC and Doel Chattar areas

Police Intercepted the procession at the TSC intersection as the road which heads towards the Bangla Academy was closed because of the Prime Minister's scheduled visit to inaugurate the Ekushey Book Fair at 11 am.

At one stage, the teachers, sat on the street. The sit-in demonstration was held for about 20 minutes.

In the afternoon, the DUTA. apex forum of the DU teachers, adopted 10 resolutions to protest and condemn the police atrocities' in the university campus.

The DUTA resolution condemning the police role noted that police stopped the teachers' mourning procession at the TSC while allowed the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) to hold their noisy procession on the road in front of the Bangla Academy.

The DU teacners also decided not to participate in any programme at the Bangla Academy during this month and urged the other professional socio-cultural organisations to take similar decisions.