Dhaka University and Rajshahi University teachers today demonstrated at respective campuses protesting the attack on eminent educationist and popular writer Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.

Dhaka University Teachers Association (DUTA) formed a human chain in front of the Aparajeyo Bangla on the campus around 12:30pm, our campus correspondent reports.

Protesting the attack on Prof Zafar Iqbal, Rajshahi University pro-Awami League teachers form a human chain in front of the university’s Senate Bhaban on Monday, March 5, 2018. Photo: STAR

Meanwhile, a section of RU pro-Awami League teachers formed a human chain under the banner of “Progressive Teachers Society” in front of the university’s Senate Bhaban around 11:00am, reports our campus correspondent from the spot.

Meanwhile, Chittagong University campus-based journalists also formed a human chain and demanded exemplary punishment of the perpetrators involved in the attack, our CU correspondent reports.

Chittagong University campus-based journalists on Monday, March 5, 2018 form a human chain and demand exemplary punishment of the perpetrators involved in attack on Prof Zafar Iqbal. Photo: STAR

Prof Zafar Iqbal, a faculty member of Computer Science and Engineering department at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), came under a knife attack at the campus by a youth on Saturday.He is now doing well.

The attacker youth was caught red-handed after the attack.

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