Police have arrested another suspect in connection with the lynching of former organising secretary Shamim Molla of Bangladesh Chhatra League鈥檚 Jahangirnagar University unit.
Md Saiful Islam Bhuiyan, 22, was arrested from the capital's Turag area during a drive on Sunday night, said Ashulia police station officer-in-charge Abu Bakar Siddique.
Saiful is a student of the university's pharmacy department under the academic session of 2022-23 and a resident of Maulana Bhasani Hall.
He was the number 4 accused in the case filed on September 20 by the university administration over the lynching.
Following the arrest of Saiful, a total of three suspected people have been arrested over Shamim's killing so far.
The other arrestees are, JU English department student Mahmudul Haque Rayhan and Dhamrai Government College unit Bangladesh Chhatra League鈥檚 former president Habibur Rahman.
On September 18, Shamim died on the way to hospital after a group of people beat him on JU campus on allegation of leading an attack on anti-quota protesters on July 15.
JU administration suspended eight students and lodged a case against them amid widespread protests by teachers and students against extrajudicial killings.
The JU administration also formed a committee to investigate the incident.
On Monday, a group of students demonstrated on the campus demanding prompt arrest of all the accused and speedy trial of them.
Under the banner of Jahangirnagar against Terrorism, the protesters brought out a procession from the university鈥檚 Murad Chatter area.
JU Teachers Network 鈥� a platform of leftist teachers of the university, also demanded justice over the lynching and brought allegation of negligence of duties by administrative body members in prohibiting the lynching on the day.
Professor Aniccha Parvin Jolly of the history department said, 鈥楯U administration has so far failed to resolve the killing as the case filed over the incident lacks proper information about the accused and the case statement did not represent the actual scenario of the day.鈥�
She also expressed anger over not including the name of Abu Sayed 鈥� former JU unit secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal 鈥� who allegedly led the mob lynching of Shamim.
