'3 students handed to guardians to protect dignity of Sufia Kamal Hall'

The three students of Dhaka University’s Kabi Sufia Kamal Hall were handed over to their guardians to protect dignity and other students of the hall as they were allegedly spreading fake news in Facebook, DU Vice Chancellor Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman told reporters today.

The guardians of the three students were called on only to inform that their children were allegedly spreading rumours on Facebook, he said.

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“It was a due responsibility of the hall authorities to inform the guardians after identifying those students who are spreading false information,” he said while reporters went to his residence.

His comment came this morning as several female students of DU Sufia Kamal Hall were handed over to their guardians at late night yesterday on the allegation that they had spread rumours using fake accounts on Facebook during the April 10 incident at the dormitory.

"It was done to safeguard the dignity of the hall and all the students," he said adding "So, by doing this, the hall authorities did a good job”.

“The VC also assured that no student was thrown out of the hall in the late night neither left alone on the street,” the VC said.

“The three students were handed to their families and another was allowed to stay in the hall as her father reached the hall late from Dhamrai,” he added.

Besides, the three will be able to take part in the scheduled sporting events in the university, the VC said.

Yesterday, several students of the dormitory told reporters that the authorities had summoned eight students to the hall office around 5:30pm and seized their mobile phones.

The authorities then told the students that they should leave the dormitory and called their local guardians to pick them up.

On April 10, some photos of a female student at Sufia Kamal Hall went viral on the social media. The victim alleged that she was tortured by some female BCL leaders for taking part in the demonstrations for quota reforms.

According to some students at the hall, Iffat, BCL president in the hall, was allegedly assaulting three students inside her room around 12:30am on April 10 for joining the protests.

Hearing screams of the students, Morsheda Akhtar, a fourth-year student of botany and also vice president of the BCL hall unit, rushed to Iffat's room. Finding it locked, she got angry, kicked a window of the room and cut her foot, they said.

Some photos of her wounded leg were doing the rounds on Facebook with captions that Iffat had cut tendons of Morsheda's leg. 

Iffat was suspended by the university soon afterwards, but the authorities took her back in later.