Shawdesh Desk:

A group of students of Dhaka University on Thursday formed a human chain at the Raju Memorial Sculpture on DU campus demanding action against the perpetrators of the October 7 attack on a programme marking the third death anniversary of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Abrar Fahad.

They staged the demonstration under the banner of ‘General Students of Dhaka University’ also demanding immediate release of those arrested at Dhaka Medical College Hospital premises after being injured in the attack.

Participants of the human chain were mostly leaders and activists of Students Against Torture.

Students Against Torture convener, addressing the human chain, said, ‘We demand justice for the attack and the release of the 24 activists of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, who were arrested and sent to jail without doing anything wrong.’

‘The one-eyed behaviour of the police has again been exposed, as the attack was launced by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists that left members of the other organisation badly injured,’ he added.

Nusrat Tabassum, a fourth year student of political science and a member of SAT, said, ‘Three Chhatra Odhikar Parishad activists could not appear in examinations as they were in jail.’

On October 7, activists of Dhaka University unit of the Chhatra League allegedly carried out the attack on the programme organised by Chatra Adhikar Parishad in memory of deceased BUET student Abrar Fahad.

Later, BCL activists allegedly launched another attack on the injured Chhatra Odhikar Parishad activists at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital. However, police detained 24 activists of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad.

Later, two charges were filed aginst them on a complaint from Nazim Uddin, organising secretary of the Chhatra League’s central committee who was injured in the attack.

All the 24 activists of Chhatra Adhikar Parishad were subsequently produced in a court that sent them to judicial custody.

Abrar, a second-year student of the electrical and electronic engineering department, was killed after he had been brutally beaten overnight by Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders and activists at Sher-e-Bangla Hall of the university in the early hours of October 7, 2019.