Rapid Action Battalion personnel arrested two central leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League from the city''s Maghbazar area early Monday, as a government-ordered hunt for suspects in campus troubles continued, reports UNB.The members of RAB-2 and the intelligence wing of the elite force jointly raided a house in the area and held BCL central committee Organizing Secretary Ashraful Rahman and International Affairs Secretary Mithu at about 5am. The two leaders of the pro-Awami League student organization were run in on charge of trying to "disrupt educational activities and congenial environment at Dhaka University", RAB sources said.
Later, they were handed over to Ramna police in the evening. When contacted, Officer-in-Charge of Ramna police station Shibly Noman said Mithu was shown arrested in a case pending against him with the police station. "We are examining whether any case is pending against Ashraf," the OC added.
Law-enforcing agencies started arrest of BCL leaders and activists after the government''s recent order for a crackdown on those out to ''destabilize the campus in the name of student politics''.
BCL suffered the biggest shock when Prime Minister and ruling Awami League president Sheikh Hasina relinquished her position as Chhatra League''s supreme organizational leader on April 4, in the wake of series of clashes between rival groups of students in educational institutions. In a presidium meeting on the day, she also ordered a crackdown on campus unrest, directing the law-enforcing agencies to tackle with a strong hand the troublemakers in her party''s student wing, or any other student organizations for that matter, who are unleashing violence in educational institutions.
Country''s higher educational institutions across the country were being shut down one after another following clashes with involvement of Chhatra League (BCL) since the AL-led government came to power following a massive significant victory at the December 29 parliamentary polls.