Siddiqur returns home Friday

Staff Correspondent: Titumir student Siddiqur Rahman who lost his eye sight by police excess is returning home from India on Friday.

The flight carrying Siddiqur is expected to land in Dhaka at 3:30pm on Friday.

His classmates will welcome him at the Shahjalal International Airport. They may observe a human chain there folding their eyes with black badge.

Sheikh Farid, classmate of Siddiqur, he (Siddiqur) is expected to leave Chennai for Dhaka around 12:00pm on Friday.

On Thursday, he met Dr Lingam Gopal of at Sankara Nethralaya in India's Chennai. He was given medicine for five to six weeks. The doctor said there is no certainty whether he would get back his eye sight. That means the doctor is not hopeful of getting back the eye sight as 90 percent of retina of his left eye was damaged.  And the right eye was ruined earlier, he added.

Siddiqur was taken to Chennai for advance treatment with the supervision of the Health Ministry on July 27.

On July 20, students of seven Dhaka University-affiliated colleges, including Titumir, were demonstrating at the capital's Shahbagh to press for their seven-point demand that included announcement of their exam dates.

While dispersing the protesters, a policeman shot a teargas canister directly at some agitating students. A video footage of the incident shows Siddiqur collapsed on the street instantly.


risingbd/Dhaka/August 10, 2017/Saon/A K Azad