Jessore Shibir man beaten to death

An Islami Chhatra Shibir activist was beaten to death and two others were injured when they came under attack from some students at MM College in Jessore yesterday afternoon.

The dead, Habibullah, 22, was a student of economics at the college. He was from Tebaria in the district's Sharsha upazila.

Jessore Shibir leaders blamed the attack on Chhatra League men.

Sikder Akkas Ali, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station, claimed that some Chhatra League activists of the college interrogated a few Shibir men on information that a secret meeting of the organisation was taking place near the college.

Students gave them a good beating and left them near the campus, he added.

Police later went there and took Habibullah, Kamrul Hasan, 22, and Al-Mamun, 22, to Jessore Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared Habibullah dead.         

Kamrul was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said hospital sources.

Police also seized a homemade bomb and some jihadi leaflets from the spot, said OC Akkas.

According to locals, some BCL activists swooped on a Shibir-controlled students' mess around noon, took the three to Asad Hall and started beating them up. When the three were injured badly, the attackers handed them over to police with a bomb. 

Injured Al Mamun said some BCL men attacked them in the mess.

Shahabuddin, publication secretary of district Jamaat-e-Islami, accused Chhatra League members of killing and injuring the Shibir activists.

Anwar Hossain Bipul, general secretary of Jessore BCL, said none from his organisation was involved in the attack. A few "general students" beat up the Shibir men when they were in a secret meeting, he added.