11 JU students suspended for torturing journalist

Jahangirnagar University authorities have suspended 11 students for different terms in connection with attacking a journalist.

Among them, one student was suspended for six months and fined Tk 5,000 taka while 10 others were suspended for the same period but were fined Tk 2,000 each, reports our JU correspondent.

The action was taken at an emergency syndicate meeting this (October 16, 2022) afternoon, said JU Syndicate Member Prof Dr Layek Sajjad Endellah, also president of the university teachers association.

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He said this decision was taken as per the recommendation of the investigation committee and disciplinary board formed following the complaint.

The students, who were suspended, are Asadul Haque, Arifuzzaman Sejan and Raihan Habib of Department of Anthropology, Mohammad Masum Billah of Law and Justice Department, Mirza Shahnoor ul Haque Zian of Economics Department, Mir Hasibul Hasan Rishad of Philosophy Department, Muntasir Ahmed Tahrim of Zoology Department, Zahid Nazrul of Chemistry Department, Imran Bashar of Bengal Department, Zayed-Bin-Mehdi of Archeology Department and AS Nafis Hossain of Department of Biochemistry.

Earlier, JU unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) identified eight activists who reportedly called a journalist to a guest room and tortured him on the night of August 2.

The abused journalist is a second-year student of the university's journalism and media studies department.

The torture took place at the university's Rabindranath Tagore Hall at midnight. The journalist claimed that some of the university's student activists tortured him in that room, reports our JU correspondent.

Soon after the incident, the university's BCL leaders and journalists went there. They listened to the victim and abusers.