A group of students from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday offered a memorandum to chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus demanding the arrest of attackers on KUET students on its campus on February 18 and the resignation of the university鈥檚 vice-chancellor.
A five-member team of representatives from around 100 students, who travelled to Dhaka from Khulna by bus, handed over the memorandum to an official of the Chief Adviser鈥檚 Office in the capital.
They placed six demands also including their safety on the campus.
After offering the memorandum, they went to the Central Shaheed Minar on the Dhaka University campus and held a protest rally there.
They alleged that although they had identified as the members of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the youth and student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the law enforcement agencies were not arresting them.
The police have so far arrested four activists of the BNP in the case filed against around 500 unnamed people with the Khan Jahan Ali police station filed on February 19 over the February 18 clash reportedly between the members of JCD and Students Against Discrimination on the KUET campus and its adjacent areas, Khan Jahan Ali police station officer-in-charge Kabir Hossain said.
鈥榃e are trying to arrest the other accused,鈥� he added.聽
The clash left over 100 people injured.
The protesting students also alleged that the university authorities failed to ensure their security on the campus.
KUET pro-VC Professor Shariful Islam said that they were providing all-out security to the students with the help of law enforcement agencies.
He said that the activists of Juba Dal, Chattra Dal and other miscreants launched the attack.
The KUET authorities, in its 98th syndicate meeting on February 19 amid students鈥� protests on the campus with six-point demands, upheld its previous decision to ban student politics on the campus.
The JCD and the Students Against Discrimination which
led the July-August mass uprising that forced the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime, blamed each other for the clash.
