Quota-reform leader Suhel sent to jail

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka court has sent Jagannath University (JnU) student APM Suhel, also the joint convener of Bangladesh General Students' Rights Protection Forum, to jail.

Metropolitan Magistrate court of Md Ziarul Islam passed the order on Friday.

Earlier, Bahauddin Faruki, Inspector Detective Branch (DB) of Police, produced him before the court and sought his detention until the investigation into the case filed for DU-VC’s resident vandalising ends.

On early Thursday, Suhel was picked up by several men in plainclothes, who identified themselves as DB officials, from the Chamelibag’s residence of Lucky Akter, former president of Bangladesh Students’ Union.

Later, in the afternoon, he was shown arrested in the case.

Four cases including vandalising the residence of the university’s Vice Chancellor Prof Mohammad Akhteruzzaman were filed against a huge number of unidentified people on charge of vandalism, arson and obstructing lawmen to perform their duty during demonstrations in Dhaka over quota reform in public service recruitment on April 8.
 

risingbd/Dhaka/July 13, 2018/Mamuun Khan/A K Azad