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| 9 injured in BCL attack on JCD rally |
| 2011-04-01 |
| Nine students of Rajshahi University were maimed yesterday in an attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... (BCL) activists on a procession of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal ...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)... (JCD). JCD convener of RU unit Arafat Reza Ashiq and two of his fellow leaders are among the injured. Sources said about 100 BCL leaders and activists attacked the JCD procession around 11:45am when it was heading towards the Folklore Chattar of the campus protesting Sunday's police attack on a procession that left nine JCD men injured. The law enforcers chased the protesters to the campus' Kazla gate. Later, the JCD men gathered on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in front of the Kazla gate around noon and blocked the road till 1:00pm. They also vandalised a university bus there. Reaching the spot, police charged baton to disperse them. The JCD men responded hurling brickbats at them. JCD convener Ashiq claimed RU Proctor Chowdhury Muhammad Zakaria provoked the BCL attack. The proctor, however, said police broke up the JCD men as they held the procession defying restrictions on activities of students' bodies on the campus. Rabiul Islam, officer-in-charge of Motihar Police Station, said they charged baton as the JCD activists were trying to create anarchy. The JCD on Sunday brought out a procession on the campus demanding punishment of BCL activists who stabbed JCD member Ahsanuzzaman on February 8. |
| Posted by:Fred |