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HC stays Buet agitation, strike

Asks police to ensure peace on campus

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday issued an injunction against the ongoing agitation and strike by Buet teachers, employees and students to help the engineering institution run its academic functions smoothly.
It also directed the inspector general of police (IGP) and Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner to ensure that law and order was maintained on the campus of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology7 (Buet).
Meanwhile, in a late-night development, BuetTeachers' Association called off their agitation.
The injunction came after a hearing on a writ petition filed by Eunus Ali Akond, a lawyer of the Supreme Court. He filed the petition on Sunday as public interest litigation seeking directives on the Buet authorities to resume classes within 24 hours. In the petition, Akond said the ongoing strike demanding the resignation of the vice-chancellor and provice chancellor on allegations of irregularities was illegal as the protesters had not placed the issues before the proper authority.
The court order will remain in force until disposal of a rule attached to it, Additional Attorney General M K Rahman told The Daily Star. The I IC issued the rule upon the government authorities and Buet to explain in four weeks why the agitation and strike should not be declared illegal.
The education secretary; VC and pro-VC of Buet, IGE DMP commissioner, president and secretary of Buet Teachers' Association were made respondents to the rule.
The national interest was protected through the court order, the petitioner told The Daily Star. Now, teachers, students and employees would have to stop agitating on the campus and so the Buet authorities would be able to resume their functions, he added.
During the hearing on the petition, Akond told the HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar that the shutdown of Buet for 44 days from July 11 in the name of summer vacation had obstructed regular classes and examination procedures, thus causing a session jam.
Additional Attorney General MK Rahman argued that the government was negotiating with the Buet authorities, students and teachers to end the crisis.
Deputy Attorney General Moklesur Rahman and Assistant Attorney General Nusrat Jahan also represented the government.
Meanwhile, Buet Teachers Association General Secretary Prof Ashraful Islam said that on receiving a copy of the court order they would consult a lawyer to decide their next course of action.
Teachers and students yesterday held their sit-in programme before the administrative building.
The agitation began on July 11 when the authorities shut the institution for 44 days in advance for Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr. The same day, the heads of all faculties and departments of Buet announced their resignation en masse to realise their demands.