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Leather tech college shut after clash

Students vandalise shops, vehicles

Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh College of Leather Technology in the city's Hazaribagh area was closed sine die yesterday as its students went berserk and vandalised shops and damaged vehicles for realising their six points demand, including reduction of examination fees.
At least ten students were injured when police charged batons on the agitated students to bring the situation under control during an hour long road blocking.
The college authorities also asked the students to leave the hostels by 6:30 pm yesterday.
Principal of the college Dr Fazlul Karim told The Daily Star that after directives from the authorities concerned, the college was declared closed for indefinite period to avoid fur-ther untoward incidents on campus and its adjacent areas.
Police and locals said students from the college started gathering on Jigatola intersection at about 10:30 am.
At about 10:45 am, they put barricade on the road and vandalised at least four shops and damaged six vehicles on the road, sources said.
During the agitation, police barred traffic movement in front of City College at Dhanmondi to save the vehicles and were able to lift the barricade from the road at about 11:45 am after a hot chase.
Principal Dr Karim said some students confined him to his office for over two hours on April 5 demanding reduction of their examination fees to Tk 5,000 fromTk 5,730.
As the college is operated under the Dhaka University (DU), he informed the matter to DU vice-chancellor who verbally assured him of placing the students' demand before the subcommittee.
The principal alleged that 'the unruly students' confined all the teachers, including him, to the office denying the verbal assurance of the vice-chancellor.
The students alleged that they placed their demand before the principal several times for reducing the exam fees, increasing facilities in hostels and transport facilities and relocating the exam centre at the college but the principal did not pay heed to their demand that led to take such agitation.
The college students--Mehedi, Asad, Nurul Islam, Bacchu and Shafiqul Islam -are among the injured persons.
A huge number of riot police were deployed on the campus.