JU students stage symbolic protest at Shahbagh

Jahangirnagar University (JU) students today staged a symbolic protest at Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka demanding withdrawal of the case filed against their fellows.

Several hundred students gathered there around 3:00pm protesting the police attacks and arrest of the university students.

They also urged the authorities concerned to withdrawal the case filed against the students, who demonstrated on the campus protesting recent death of their two fellows.

Earlier on May 27, two JU students -- Nazmul Hasan Rana, 24, of marketing department, and Arafat, 24, of microbiology, were killed as a bus rammed a human-haulier carrying them on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in C&B bus stand area of Savar around 5:00am.

Following the incident, hundreds of students blocked the highway in front of the university's main entrance and Joy Bangla Gate separately around noon.

At least 10 persons, including students, a JU official and two journalists, were injured when police and Bangladesh Chhatra Leauge activists of JU unit tried to disperse the demonstrators in three separate incidents.

Later that day, demanding punishment for the BCL men, students laid siege to the VC's residence. Following that, 42 JU students were detained by the law enforcers as the JU registrar filed the case with Ashulia Police Station on May 28 against 50 students mentioning the names of 31, bringing allegation that the students have carried out vandalism on the campus during the agitation.