Calls grow louder also for banning organisation-based student politics; protests over Abrar killing rage on

Staff Correspondent

Call for punishing Buet student Abrar Fahad’s killers is getting louder as the alumni of the university and more teachers joined the student agitation, sparked by the brutal murder, yesterday.

The alumni and the teachers demanded removal of Vice-Chancellor Prof Saiful Islam for his “failure to ensure security” on the campus. They also pressed for an overhauling of the university administration as soon as possible.

Yesterday, the agitating students and teachers demanded banning organisation-based student politics at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), saying politics of terror has reigned the university dormitories for long.

The student protests, meanwhile, spread like wildfire across the capital and elsewhere. Speaking there, teachers, students and their guardians also demanded that the VC be ousted immediately.

At Buet, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Khan, the provost of Sher-e-Bangla Hall where Abrar Fahad was killed, resigned.

The second-year student of electrical and electronic engineering department was beaten to death by a group of Chhatra League leaders sometime between 7:30pm Sunday and 2:30am Monday.

Law enforcers and his fellow students suspect Abrar was attacked because of one of his recent Facebook posts, which seemed critical of some recent deals with

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