SAKIB AHMED and EMRUL HASAN BAPPI

Shamim Molla, a former student of Jahangirnagar University, was reportedly beaten to death on campus on September 18 last year by a group of students who accused him of involvement in the attack on anti-quota protesters on July 15.

Two days after the killing, JU authorities filed a murder case with Ashulia Police Station against eight students and some 20 to 25 unidentified individuals.

Aggrieved by the case filed by the authorities, Shamim’s elder brother, Shahin Alam, filed another murder case with a Dhaka court on October 9.

He accused nine university students; Chief Security Officer Sudipta Shaheen; Deputy Registrar Gafrul Hasan Chowdhury; and Proctor AKM Rashidul Alam, also joint secretary of the BNP-aligned Nationalist Teachers’ Forum at JU, in the murder case.

After recording Shahin’s statements, the court directed the officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station to investigate his case along with the previous case file by the university.

The Daily Star recently found that more than 10 months after the court’s order, the documents

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