16 pvt varsity students secure bail

Staff Correspondent: Separate courts in Dhaka on Sunday granted bail to 16 private university students accused in two cases filed over vandalism and attacks on police during the student movement demanding safe roads.

Chief metropolitan magistrate Saifuzzaman Hero granted bail to Iftekhar Ahmed while Dhaka metropolitan magistrate AKM Moinuddin Siddiqi granted bails to 15 students after hearing their separate bail petitions.

The students who got bails are Mashad Mortuza Bin Ahad, Sakhawat Hossain Nizhum, Shihad Shahriar, Ajijul Karim Antor, Mahedi Hasan, Foyez Ahmed Adnan who were shown arrested in a case filed with Bhatara police station, and Noor Mohammad, Jahidul Haque, Iftekhar Ahmed, Mohammad Hasan, Redwan Ahmed, Tariqul Islam, AHM Khaled Reza, Reza Rifat Akhlaq, Rashedul Islam, and Mushfiqur Rahman who were accused in a case filed under Badda police station.

Twenty-two students of seven private universities, who were arrested on the charges in two cases filed with Badda and Bhatara police stations, were denied bail by courts in two phases.

Earlier, the students appealed together for bail on August 7 and 9, but their petitions were rejected and sent to jail on the completion of their 2-day remand in the cases.

Four of them sought bail again on Sunday and eight others on Monday, but their prayers were also turned down.

The arrested students belong to East West, North South, Southeast, Brac, Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB), International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) and Asian University of Bangladesh.

The students of the seven private universities were arrested on August 6 following clashes between students and police aided by alleged ruling party men in Bashundhara Residential and Bhatara areas.

The student protests flared across Bangladesh on July 29 when two college students were run over in Dhaka - becoming victims of the unruly transportation sector of the capital.


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