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Buet Incident

2 BCL men expelled

Staff Correspondent
In the face of a three-day student movement, the Buet administration yesterday expelled two activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League for assaulting a senior student of the university.
Based on a probe body report, the Board of Residence and Disciplinary Committee took the decision at a three-hour meeting presided over by the vice-chancellor in the evening.
The expelled, Sujit Saha and Saifullah Shikder, are from the 2008 batch of the material and metallurgical department.
Several hundred students had been agitating on the campus since Saturday afternoon following an attack on Tousif Ahmed Eshan, a 2006 batch student of the computer science and engineering department, by several Chhatra League activists.
The assault followed an altercation between senior and junior students during a concert on Wednesday.
In the attack, the left hand of Tousif was broken while he suffered injuries to his leg and other parts of the body.
The students besieged Buet's administrative building and staged sit-ins till 3:15pm yesterday, demanding the expulsion of Sujit, Saifullah and another student, ArifRaihan.
Vice-Chancellor Prof SM Nazrul Islam told The Daily Star after the meeting that the probe committee report submitted to the university high-ups yesterday morning found Sujit and Saifullah guilty of assaultingTousif.
Arif was cleared of the charge as the probe body did not find him involved in the incident, said Prof SM Nazrul.
On Sunday, the Buet authorities suspended Sujit, Saifullah and Arif for six
months but the action failed to calm the agitators. The authorities also put a halt to academic activities at the institution until further notice.
As the issue had been resolved, academic activities would now go on as usual, VC Prof Nazrul said.
The protesters expressed dissatisfaction over a part of the disciplinary committee's decision. They claimed there was scope for the expelled students to appeal before the university academic council within the next 15 days to reconsider their punishment.
They hoped the academic council would uphold the disciplinary committee decision.
Yesterday, a large number of police were deployed on the campus as the students continued their protests for the third consecutive day.
Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Shahbagh Police Station, said as many as 200 policemen were on the campus all day.
The agitators left the administrative building premises in the afternoon at the request of officials ahead of the disciplinary committee meeting there.
After leaving the spot, students held a press brief-
ing at the Buet cafeteria where they reiterated their demands.
“We will return to our dormitories once we get a written copy of the decision,” Joy, one of the protesters, told The Daily Star yesterday last night.
TOUSIF'S FATHER ON HIS SON'S STANCE Md Siddiqur Rahman, father of the victim, in a letter has clarified his son's position in Wednesday's incident and protested a portion of a report published in The Daily Star yesterday.
He said no fight or scuffle had occurred between his son and the accused attackers on the day. It was rather limited to an exchange of words.
The report reads: Tousif and several senior students got into a fight with some junior students, including the three, who were trying to occupy some chairs reserved for seniors at a concert at the university auditorium, said sources.