Fourteen leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, a front organisation of Bangladesh Awami League, were sued today (October 18, 2022) over the attacks on Chhatra Odhikar Parishad members on Dhaka University campus and Dhaka Medical College Hospital on October 7.
Chhatra Odhikar Parishad President Bin Yamin Mollah filed the case with the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Md Shafiuddin, bench assistant Gautam Chandra Das confirmed the matter to The Daily Star.
Upon the hearing, the magistrate recorded statement of the complainant and is scheduled to pass an order on the issue later in the day.
In his complaint, Yamin said they arranged a rally on October 7 marking the 3rd death anniversary of Buet student Abrar Fahad in front of Raju Sculpture on DU campus.
Abrar died on October 7, 2019, in a dormitory after being brutally beaten up by some Chhatra League men.
But BCL leaders and activists attacked them that left at least 13 injured.
Later, Chhatra League Organising Secretary Nazim Uddin and activist Aminur Rahman filed two cases with Shahbagh Police Station accusing 25, including its DU unit President Akhter Hossain and 140-150 unnamed people.
