The chief security officer of Jahangirnagar University, Sudipta Shaheen, has been discharged from the duty for allegedly distorting the case statement on the lynching of former Chhatra League leader Shamim Molla on the campus.
A JU notice, signed by registrar ABM Azizur Rahman on Friday, said that Sudipta was discharged from the duty of chief security officer and was attached to the office of the JU contingent of Bangladesh National Cadet Corps on Thursday.
According to the notice, the JU administration said that it decided to file a case on the unnatural death of former student Shamim Molla.
The administration has also approved a statement on suspected people involved in the incident, the notice added.
‘JU chief security officer Sudipta Shaheen reportedly re-sorted the list of suspected people and it went against the Employee Skill and Disciplinary code of the university’, the notice read.
The university administration also formed a probe body headed by professor Lutful Elahi of the history department of the university to investigate the allegation against Sudipta.
The other members of the five-member committee are professor Abdul Halim of the botany department, professor Salahuddin Bhuiyan of pharmacy, associate professor Mahbubur Rahman Bhuiyan of the physics department and deputy registrar Lutfur Rahman Arif.
The committee was directed to submit its report in next 15 days.
The committee also directed to look into the matter of alleged negligence, indifference of the university’s security officials to the lynching of Shamim Molla.
Earlier on September 20, the JU administration suspended eight students of the university and lodged a lawsuit against them over beating former organising secretary of the university unit BCL, Shamim Molla, on the campus on September 18.
The JU chapter of the Student Movement Against Discrimination raised an allegation against Sudipta Shaheen that the officer placed a coordinator of the student platform Ahsan Labib at the top of the list though Labib was listed as the number eight by the administration.
On December 8, 2020, the JU authorities suspended its chief security officer, Sudipta Shaheen, for her controversial activities during his four-year service.
The charges against Sudipta included assaulting teachers, students, blackmailing, extortion, and verbal abuse of female visitors and others.
