Abrar murder: Buet teachers, students bring out silent procession
Teachers and students of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) brought out a silent procession on the campus demanding punishment of Abrar Fahad’s killers.
The silent procession was brought out around 10:00am and went around the entire campus before congregating at the Shaheed Minar on Buet campus.
Meanwhile students from different halls and departments are also joining them demanding justice for Abrar Fahad.
Abrar Fahad, a second-year student of EEE department, was beaten to death allegedly by some BCL leaders at the university’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall sometime between 7:30pm Sunday and 2:30am Monday.
‘Don’t want this kind of politics on the campus’
“We mourn the killing of our student and demand exemplary punishment of the killers,” Professor Dr Md Shafiqul Islam, head of the EEE department, said while addressing the teachers and students at the Shaheed Minar.
In reply to a query Professor Dr Md Shafiqul Islam said, “When we were students in the 90s, student leaders and general students would even share the same room.”
“We do not want this kind of politics on the campus, the kind of student politics that does not work for the betterment of the student body,” he added.
“We mourn the killing of our student and demand exemplary punishment of the killers,” Professor Dr Md Shafiqul Islam, head of the EEE department, said while addressing the teachers and students at the Shaheed Minar.
In reply to a query Professor Dr Md Shafiqul Islam said, “When we were students in the 90s, student leaders and general students would even share the same room.”
“We do not want this kind of politics on the campus, the kind of student politics that does not work for the betterment of the student body,” he added.
Dr Shafiqul further said that teachers’ politics is practically absent in Buet and it can be considered that 90 per cent of the teachers do not engage in politics.
The teachers conveyed condolences to Abrar Fahad’s family members.
Murder triggers outrage
The gruesome murder has sparked widespread outrage among students of different public universities who have taken to the streets demanding punishment of the killers.
Yesterday, several hundred Buet students came out of dormitories and gathered in front of the university’s central cafeteria and placed their eight-point demand which includes capital punishment to the killers, expulsion of all the accused from the university, and a ban on organisation-based politics on the campus.
Their demands also include expulsion of all the identified killers from Buet for life within 72 hours, trial of the Abrar murder case at a speedy tribunal, and expulsion of those involved in ragging students at Buet dormitories.
The students also threatened to foil the Buet admission test scheduled for October 14 if their demands were not met.
They also protested the “silence” of the vice chancellor and his administration over the Abrar murder.
Vice Chancellor VC Saiful Islam neither came to the campus nor gave any statement after the murder. He finally showed up on the campus to hold an urgent meeting with the hall provosts around 38 hours after the killing.
Learning about the VC’s arrival, several hundred students besieged his office. He came out of the office an hour later, and assured the agitating students that their demands would be met.
The students then hurled a volley of questions at the VC but he didn’t respond to any of those.
So far, police have arrested 12 out of the 19 accused in the case. A Dhaka court yesterday granted a five-day remand for each of the 10 accused who were arrested on Monday.
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