SUST student among three beaten
Three youths including a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) were severely beaten allegedly by some locals of Chandantula area in Ward Number 17 in Sylhet on Wednesday.
The injured are Rajesh Barua, 24, a fourth year student of SUST genetic engineering and biotechnology department; Sudip Banik, 24, a third year student of Murari Chad College history department; and Tapu Banik, 19, an HSC candidate of Sylhet Government College.
Doctors at Jalalabad Ragib Rabeya Medical College and Hospital said Rajesh would probably suffer hearing loss in his left ear.
Rajesh said they were going home through a lane beside house #26 in the area when the house owners Abdus Sobhan Lockman, 54; Abdus Samad Nazrul, 52; and Abdul Hamid Iqbal, 41; stopped them and questioned why they were using the lane.
They claimed the youths were sent by a former ward councillor Abdul Gaffer Dilip to cause trouble. At one point of the altercation, they began beating the youths, alleged Rajesh.
According to sources in the area, Rajesh is Dilip's tenant and Samad is also a former ward councillor. The two councillors had previous enmity, they added.
When contacted, Iqbal claimed the three attacked them.
“We are going to submit a written complaint to the university authority,” said Rajesh's brother Udayan Barua.
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