Gun-toting BCL men roam free at RU
At least four pro-Awami League Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders, who openly brandished firearms during the October 2 clash in Rajshahi University, were seen roaming freely on the campus right before police yesterday.
The clash, between pro-Jamaat-e-Islami Islamic Chhatra Shibir and BCL activists, left some 25 students injured, three of them bullet-hit.
The four are former vice president Akheruzzaman Takim and organising secretary SM Towhid Al Hossain Tuhin, expelled from BCL in July, and Deputy Library Affairs Secretary Nasim Ahmed Setu and Deputy Office Secretary Atikur Rahman.
They were caught on camera by photojournalists of newspapers and television channels while shooting with guns during the clash.
Students and teachers said the four were seen participating in a BCL demonstration on the campus around 11:00am yesterday.
Around five hours later, Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Additional Commissioner M Moniruzzaman said the four were “on the run” and police had no trace of them.
Police recorded only one case, filed by Tuhin with Motihar Police Station, against 21 Shibir activists by name and 100 others unnamed, for attacking a BCL procession and shooting BCL activists.
Moniruzzaman and Motihar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Anisur Rahman declined to comment on why cases were not filed against BCL activists.
The four said they were not ashamed of taking up firearms in self-defence.
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