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MC College Arson

Probe body finds BCL responsible

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet
An enquiry committee formed into the burning of MC College hostel has held Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) responsible for the incident on July 8.
Vice-Principal of the college Al Helal Bhuiyan, who headed the five-member committee, said this while talking to the newsmen yesterday afternoon, adding that an outsiders' group of BCL, the ruling Awami League-backed student body, had taken part in the arson attack.
The group had resorted to setting the fire after a BCL activist sustained injuries in a clash with Jamaat-backed Islami Chhatra Shibir activists the same day, the
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Some of the BCL outsiders were named specifically along with theiridentities.
The committee chief, however, mentioned in the report that the incident could have been averted easily if the police personnel stopped the outsiders at the hostel gate.
Police did not try to prevent the outsiders from entering into the hostel area, he added. Besides that, hostel Super Bashir Ahmed did not perform his duty properly, he noted.
Contacted, the committee chief declined to elaborate the findings of the report.
Around 200 rooms were gutted and at least 20 people injured during the incident on July8.
Statements of the college principal, the hostel super, 39 witnesses including 23 injured students, newspaper clippings and video footage etc were attached with the 200-page report.
The committee was formed at an emergency meeting of the college academic council on July 9, hours after the mayhem.
Contacted, Principal Dhiresh Chandra Sarker told The Daily Star, “We just received the report. I could not see the contents yet.”
He said the report would be placed at the meeting of the academic council.
Meanwhile, two other probe bodies are yet to submit their reports, although they were given several extension of time.
THIN ATTENDANCE AS COLLEGE REOPENS After being shut for about two months following the violence between BCL and Chhatra Shibir activists, the college reopened yesterday.
Although attendance was thin and holding of some classes took place, there was no untoward incident on and around the campus amid special deployment of police and Rab sinceTuesday.
However, the BCL men took out a procession on the campus, while no activist of Chhatra Shibir was seen.
NO BCL, JUBO LEAGUE MEN HELD
So far, around 20 activists of Chhatra Shibir were detained in the two cases filed by BCL activists.
Three other cases were also filed - two by Chhatra Shibir and the other by the hostel super.
Police said investigations in the cases were underway.