BAU resumes Wednesday

The decision has beentaken as most of our demands were met, says Lutful Hasan

The classes and academic activities of Bangladesh Agriculture University will resume on Wednesday after a long closure over a student killing on the campus.

Bangladesh Agriculture University Teachers’ Association (BAUTA) Wednesday has made the decision in a meeting on Tuesday.

Lutful Hasan, the president of the association, told journalists about the decision after the meeting around 4.00pm.

Classes and all academic activities have been closed in the wake of  the protest by the university teachers and students following sensational killing of a student, Saad, allegedly murdered in the hands of some of his classmates also fellow students of BAU unit Chhatra League.

The meeting began around 10am in the morning at the university’s Shilpacharya Jainul Abedin Auditorium, presided over by Lutful Hasan.

He said: “The decision has been taken as most of our demands were met.”

Saad, 21, a final year student of Fisheries Faculty of BAU and organising secretary of BCL Ashraful Haque Hall unit, was killed in an attack by friends who are also BCL men.

Over hundreds of agitating students were protesting with demands including arrest of Saad’s killers and to make their names public; cancellation of their studentship and permanent expulsion of the accused from the university.

Source: Dhaka Tribune