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27 September 2011, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

Jagannath University (JnU) students yesterday staged angry demonstrations on the campus to press their demands including continuation of government funding for the university and release of 14 arrested fellow students. Witnesses said hundreds of JnU students resumed their agitation in the morning bringing out processions on the campus. They also held the JnU vice-chancellor (VC) hostage for about an hour by locking the VC office around 1:00pm, witnesses added. Among the student demands were recovery of the dormitories from illegal occupants, removal of the Bangladesh Bank branch office and arrange adequate buses for students' transportation, and release of the 14 students who were arrested during Monday's agitation on the campus. JnU Proctor Ashok Kumar Saha told The Daily Star that the students were calmed after the VC assured them to immediately release the arrested students and to fulfill their demand of government funding continuation after consulting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The proctor also said the 14 students were released from the court premises on bail. JNU students clashed with the law enforcers and vandalised around 50 vehicles during the violence on Sunday and Monday.