C T Online Desk: Jahangirnagar University authorities expelled a Bangladesh Chhatra League activist of JU unit for six months and fined him Tk 5,000 while 10 other activists were given a punishment of six months’ ‘suspended expulsion’ and a fine of Tk 2,000 each for torturing a journalist on the campus.
JU registrar Rahima Kaneez confirmed that the university syndicate took the decision in an emergency meeting following the recommendation of the university’s disciplinary committee.
JU vice-chancellor Nurul Alam presided over the meeting.
The journalist was tortured in the guest room of Bishwakabi Rabindranath Tagore Hall on August 2.
Anthropology department’s masters’ student Asad Haque received six months’ expulsion from both academic and residential facilities and he was asked to pay a fine of Tk 5,000 to the university administration.
The 10 other BCL activists who were given ‘suspended expulsion’ for six months and fined Tk 2,000 each are Arif Zaman Shejan, Rayhan Bin Habib of anthropology, Masum Billah of law and justice, Mirza Shahnur Ul Haque of economics, Muntasir Ahmed Tahrim of zoology, Mir Hasibul Hasan Reshad of philosophy, Imran Bashor of Bengali, Zayed Bin Mehedi of archeology, Jahid Hasan of chemistry and Nafis Hossain of biochemistry and molecular biology department.
On August 2, some BCL activists physically tortured Al-Amin Hossain Rubel, the university correspondent of an online news portal, as he did not attend ragging at midnight.
At the same night, JU BCL declared eight of their activists’ unwanted from all the activities of the organisation.
