The Jahangirnagar University unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on Thursday filed a case against 172 leaders and activists of the university unit of the Bangladesh Chhatra League over attacking protesting students during the July-August mass uprising in 2024.
The case also accused 300 more unidentified individuals along with recently banned student organisation鈥檚 JU unit president Akhtaruzzaman Sohel and general secretary Habibur Rahman of the same crime.
The case was lodged with the Ashulia police station on Thursday following the complaint made over the incident on Wednesday night, said officer-in-charge of the station, Abu Bakor Siddik.
According to the case statement, the BCL, the student wing of the Awami League, activists allegedly detained, assaulted, and threatened students from the night of July 14 to the early hours of July 16, 2024, at various locations on the campus.
Ferdous Rahman, a member of the convening committee of JU Chhatra Dal and the plaintiff in the case, stated that the accused used crude bombs and petrol bombs to intimidate students, along with carrying out physical assaults.
Md Affan Ali, senior joint convener of the JU JCD convening committee and head of the evidence collection cell on student repression, said that his unit was determined to bring every individual involved in the attack to justice.
鈥楢s part of this commitment, we have filed the case against those responsible for the violence in the July movement鈥�, he said.
Earlier on August 5, 2024, a student-led mass uprising put an end to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 autocratic regime and forced her to flee India.
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