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BCL beats up JCD leader

7 July 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Kushtia

The activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Islamic University (IU) yesterday beat up Sariful Islam Sumon, president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Bangbandhu Sheikh Mujib Hall unit on IU campus. The BCL cadres swooped on Sumon at main gate of the university at about 1.00: pm and beat him up with iron rod and bamboo sticks, witnesses said. The attackers alleged that Sumon led several attacks on BCL on the campus during the last BNP tenure. BCL activists faced at least 12 attacks by JCD men that left at least 100 injured, they said.