Students confine VC to office for 2 hours

4 October 2009, 17:00 PM

A Correspondent, Comilla University

The students of the Comilla University yesterday kept Vice Chancellor Prof Dr AHM Zehadul Karim confined to his office room for one hour demanding his removal. Students went to the vice chancellor's room to submit their seven-point demand including punishment of the armed intruders who earlier involved in clashes on the campus, ban on outsiders' entrance, setting up a police camp for students' security, providing better facilities in the dormitories, police and witnesses said. Finding no 'satisfactory response' from the vice chancellor, the agitated students confined him to his room. Following request from teachers and officials, the students left after one hour. Later they burnt effigy of the vice chancellor and brought out a procession on the campus demanding his removal. “We submitted seven-point demand for benefit of the general students. But the vice chancellor did not pay heed to our demands. Now we want his quick removal for betterment of the university,” said Mahmudur Rahman Masum, a leader of the university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League. Additional police have been deployed on the campus to stave off any unwanted incident. Earlier the university remained closed for 33 days following factional clashes among Chhatra League activists on August 29.