BUET students demand secure campus

Protesting the alleged attack on them by students of Dhaka University, students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) today demanded for a more secure campus.

Thousands of Buet, the top institution for engineering studies in country, students blocked the road from Palashi intersection to Penang restaurant around 12:00pm also demanded punishment to the perpetrators.

On Friday night, October 27, 2017, five Buet students were injured allegedly during a clash with a group of DU students at Palashi intersection.

Earlier in the afternoon on the same day, a Buet student was beaten allegedly by some DU students of Zahurul Haque Hall. In retaliation, some Buet students confined a student of the hall to a room of Titumir Hall on Buet campus.

Later, around 8:30pm, near the Palashi intersection, an altercation broke out between the students of the two universities over the issue.

“The attack on Buet students by Dhaka University students was presented wrongly and in a motivated way in the media. We demand the authorities of Buet to arrange a press conference to present the right news,” the students of BUET demanded in a note supplied to the journalists at the protest rally on campus today.

Along with this, they demanded that copies of all of the CCTV camera footage of October 26 and 27 to be given to the protesting students immediately.   

Source: thedailystar