Row Over Land
Case filed against 8 CVASU teachers, 150 students
A case was filed against eight teachers and 150 unidentified students of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) in Chittagong on Wednesday for allegedly vandalising the office of Department of Livestock Services (DLS) and assaulting its officials.
The teachers are Proctor Dr Gautam Debanath, Dr Alamgir Hossain, Dr Lutfor Rahman, Dr Gautam Baidya Das, Dr Suchandan, Dr Shuvgata Das, Ehsanul Hoque and Emran Hossain.
DLS, Chittagong Deputy Director Shankha Kumar Chakrabarty said, “Our officials went to take measurements of a piece of land, adjacent to the university's academic building and allocated for the department, on Wednesday morning when they were attacked.”
“The attackers obstructed the officials and vandalised windows of our office, around 150 yards from the academic building,” he said.
The piece of land would be used to construct a building which would house a “Field Disease Investigation Laboratory” under a World Bank-funded project, he said.
CVASU Vice-Chancellor Prof Mahfuzul Bari said before 2006, CVASU was known as Chittagong Government Veterinary College and the college and its properties were under DLS.
Once it became a university in 2006, it came under the Ministry of Education along with its properties. However, DLS was still to hand over the deed of the piece of land, he said.
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