JU students end hunger strike on assurance of case withdrawal

Agitating students of Jahangirnagar University ended their hunger strike this evening after the university authorities assured them of withdrawing the case filed against 56 students.

JU Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Amir Hussain gave the assurance and broke the strike with water around 8:00pm, reports our JU correspondent.

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The university authorities filed the case in connection with vandalism at the vice-chancellor's house on May 27.

Earlier, a total of eight students have gradually started their fast unto death from Saturday noon.

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On May 26, marketing student Nazmul Hasan Rana, 24, and microbiology student Arafat, 24, were killed as a bus hit a human haulier carrying them on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar's C&B bus stand area.

Afterwards, agitating students blocked the highway demanding speed breakers there. But police fired rubber bullets and teargas canisters to disperse them. At least 10 people, including students, a JU official and two journalists, were injured.

Later, they besieged the VC's residence. During the demonstration, 42 JU students were held and later shown arrested in the vandalism case filed by Registrar Abu Bakr Siddique.

The next day, all the 42 were released on bail.