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26 April 2010, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent, Ctg

With no movement of shuttle trains and public vehicles, deadlock at Chittagong University (CU) remained the same for the seventh consecutive day yesterday due to an indefinite strike by BCL CU unit. Bangladesh Railway (east zone) stopped movement of trains between CU and the port city since April 22 fearing harassment of loco-masters and guards as well as damage to railway properties by agitating students. Meanwhile, the vice chancellor sent a letter to Deputy Inspector General of Police in Chittagong range Dr Sadikur Rahman blaming non-cooperation of the railway police in ensuring enough security to ply the trains. But sources in railway said an intelligence report regarding suspected attack on shuttle trains and unwillingness of the loco-masters (drivers) to ply the trains forced the railway authorities to keep the service off. Superintendent of Police of GRP Chittagong Habibur Rahman told The Daily Star that they had recently sent a report to Dhaka suspecting possible damage to shuttle trains by any vested group amid unrest at CU. Divisional Railway Manager Ibrahim Khalil said they are unwilling to start plying trains until the present situation on the campus is over. No public-run human haulers plied between the city and university, though Chittagong City Corporation Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury called in the owners' association on Sunday to run their vehicles. Meanwhile, Md Rafik, who was arrested on Saturday from Fatehpur of Hathazari in connection with the killing of CU student Asaduzzaman, was interrogated on the first day of a three-day remand.