DU files case against 50

Staff Correspondent: The Dhaka University authorities have filed a case against 50 unknown persons for vandalising the gate of the proctor’s office during protests against alleged attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Shahbagh Police Station Abul Hasan said the case was filed on Thursday night.

A group of Dhaka University students have been demonstrating for several days demanding that it cut the affiliation with the seven government colleges in the capital.

Leaders of the BCL’s DU unit pulled the student who was coordinating the protests against the university’s affiliation with the colleges, inside the VC’s office on Monday during protests. The protesting students alleged the BCL leaders also assaulted the female students demonstrating in front of the VC’s office.

On Wednesday, the students besieged the proctor in his office.

They tore down the collapsible gate of the building after the authorities locked it seeing them coming.

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