Either proctor's resignation or strike

Alleging that Proctor Prof Tapan Kumar Saha directed the police action on Monday's blockade, Jahangirnagar Sangskritik Jote yesterday handed over a memorandum to Vice-Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam demanding that he resign by today and threatening to otherwise observe a strike.

The Jahangirnagar University (JU) students had blockaded the Dhaka-Aricha highway during a half-day countrywide hartal of Progressive Students' Alliance and Anti-Imperialist Students' Union, two major alliances of left-leaning students' bodies.

It was in protest of "government's failure" to arrest the killers of Comilla Victoria Government College student Sohagi Jahan Tonu, whose body was found inside Comilla cantonment on March 20.

The jote brought out a procession and laid siege to the registrar building for an hour, alleging that police charged baton and detained 11 activists right after the proctor left on giving the order while the Prantik gate was intentionally kept shut.

The JU authorities got the detainees released from Ashulia Police Station after around eight hours.

Right after the police action, the jote demanded the resignation through a press conference and laid siege to the registrar building for two hours.