General students of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) yesterday staged demonstration in front of the administrative building and demanded immediate releases of the students arrested by joint forces on Sunday night.

The joint forces arrested five students including an outsider and seized many electric circuits and equipments during the three-hour raids on different halls.

The arrested students were reportedly sent to court yesterday.

Campus sources said hundreds of angry students staged demonstration in front of the vicechancellor's office and demanded the release of their classmates.

They threatened that they will not sit for today's examination if their friends are not released within 24 hours.

The students also protested police harassment during the hall raids.

Students Welfare Adviser Sayed Mafiz Uddin told the agitating

students that as they were arrested by joint forces the authorities had nothing to do in this regard.

He however will try to get their release.

The adviser said the 1st year examination will be held as scheduled.

As the students were not pacified, police were asked to disperse them.