At least 15 students were injured after police charged batons on a procession marching towards the office of Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner in the capital on Sunday noon.
They took primary treatment at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
A number of students under the banner of ‘Palta Aghat’ (counter attack), a left leaning students coalition, paraded towards the DMP commissioner office as a part of their scheduled programme to lay siege. Their demand was arresting and trying culprits involved in sexual harassment of women folks near Teachers’-Students’ Centre of Dhaka University during Pahela Baishakh celebrations.
Police intercepted the students at Kakrail as near the house of the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
After interception, the agitators sat on the street near Officers’ Club and demonstrated.
Police charged batons on them indiscriminately and fired teargas shells to disperse the procession.
They arrested three students at the spot.
DMP Ramna division deputy commissioner, Abdul Baten, said they simply complied with their duty and dispersed the agitators as they were creating traffic obstacles.
‘They were creating obstructions to traffic and that’s why police were compelled to disperse them.’
The activists of Pragatishil Chhatra Jote, a platform of 13 left-leaning student organisations, also joined the demonstration.
A number of young men sexually assaulted women, even stripped at least one, at Suhrawardy Udyan gate near the TSC of Dhaka University on April 14, the first day of Bangla New Year.
The incident sparked public outrage and since then, students and people from all walks of life have been demanding legal action against the culprits.
They took primary treatment at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
A number of students under the banner of ‘Palta Aghat’ (counter attack), a left leaning students coalition, paraded towards the DMP commissioner office as a part of their scheduled programme to lay siege. Their demand was arresting and trying culprits involved in sexual harassment of women folks near Teachers’-Students’ Centre of Dhaka University during Pahela Baishakh celebrations.
Police intercepted the students at Kakrail as near the house of the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
After interception, the agitators sat on the street near Officers’ Club and demonstrated.
Police charged batons on them indiscriminately and fired teargas shells to disperse the procession.
They arrested three students at the spot.
DMP Ramna division deputy commissioner, Abdul Baten, said they simply complied with their duty and dispersed the agitators as they were creating traffic obstacles.
‘They were creating obstructions to traffic and that’s why police were compelled to disperse them.’
The activists of Pragatishil Chhatra Jote, a platform of 13 left-leaning student organisations, also joined the demonstration.
A number of young men sexually assaulted women, even stripped at least one, at Suhrawardy Udyan gate near the TSC of Dhaka University on April 14, the first day of Bangla New Year.
The incident sparked public outrage and since then, students and people from all walks of life have been demanding legal action against the culprits.
Source: New Age
