A group of teachers of public and private universities on Saturday afternoon went to Detective Branch headquarters in the capital鈥檚 Minto Road area to know whereabouts of three quota movement coordinators鈥� Nahid Islam, Abu Baker Mazumdar, and Asif Mahmud.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional commissioner, DB chief Harun or Rashid, however, did not meet them as 鈥榟e was busy鈥�.
The three coordinators of Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for the quota reform movement, were allegedly picked up by members of security agencies from a hospital in the capital鈥檚 Dhanmondi area on Friday afternoon.
Later, it was known that they had been taken into custody of the detectives for interrogation to find out who was threatening them.
Dhaka University professor of Mass Communication and Journalism, Gitiara Nasreen said that they went there because they were concerned about them.
They were reportedly brought here from the hospital for 鈥榚xtra security鈥�, she said.
Dhaka University鈥檚 International Relations department鈥檚 professor Tanjim Uddin Khan, Jahangirnagar University鈥檚 professor Mirza Taslima Sultana, BRAC University鈥檚 lecturer Saimum Reza were, among the 12-member University Teachers鈥� Network delegation, that visited the DB office.