The students and teachers of Buet’s electrical and electronic engineering department brought out a silent procession on the campus this morning demanding punishment of Abrar Fahad’s killers.
Abrar Fahad, a second-year student of the university’s electrical and electronic engineering department, was beaten to death allegedly by some BCL leaders at the university’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall sometime between 7:30pm Sunday and 2:30am Monday.
The gruesome murder has touched off widespread outrage with students of different public universities taking to the streets demanding the killers’ punishment.
Yesterday, several hundred Buet students came out of dormitories and gathered in front of the university’s central cafeteria and placed their eight-point demand which includes capital punishment to the killers, expulsion of all the accused from the university, and a ban on organisation-based politics on the campus.
Their demands also include expulsion of all the identified killers from Buet for life within 72 hours, trial of the Abrar murder case at a speedy tribunal, and expulsion of those involved in ragging students at Buet dormitories.
The students also threatened to foil the Buet admission test scheduled for October 14 if their demands were not met.
They also protested the “silence” of the vice chancellor and his administration over the Abrar murder.
Vice Chancellor VC Saiful Islam neither came to the campus nor gave any statement after the murder. He finally showed up on the campus to hold an urgent meeting with the hall provosts around 38 hours after the killing.
Learning about the VC’s arrival, several hundred students besieged his office. He came out of the office an hour later, and assured the agitating students that their demands would be met.
The students then hurled a volley of questions at the VC but he didn’t respond to any of those.
So far, police have arrested 12 out of the 19 accused in the case. A Dhaka court yesterday granted a five-day remand for each of the 10 accused who were arrested on Monday.
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