Case filed over Sunday’s violence centring colleges in Old Dhaka

A case has been filed against 8,000 students of different colleges including Dr Mahbubur Rahman Molla College, in connection with the vandalism at National Medical College and Hospital at Bakshibazar in Old Dhaka, after the death of a student in ‘wrong treatment’.

Sub-inspector AKM Hasan Mahmudul Kabir filed the case with Sutrapur Police Station on Sunday night.

Charges including vandalism, two policemen injured, vandalising an armed personnel carrier and stealing a magazine of bullets, were brought against them, said Saiful Islam, in-charge of Sutrapur Police Station on Monday.

On November 16, Abhijit Halder, an HSC student of Demra’s Dr Mahbubur Rahman Molla College, was admitted to the medicine department of the hospital with dengue. He died on November 18.

After that students vandalised the hospital alleging negligence in treatment at the hospital on Sunday.

They alleged that students from Kabi Nazrul and Suhrawardy Colleges supported by National Medical College attacked them.

Later, students from 35 colleges clashed with the students of Kabi Nazrul and Suhrawardy Colleges and vandalised property of the two colleges on Sunday, leaving at least 20 people injured.

The 35 colleges included Dr. Mahbubur Rahman Molla College, Dhaka College, Dhaka Ideal College, City College, Giyasuddin College, Government Tolaram College, Imperial College, Borhanuddin College, Science College, Dhaniya College, Lalbagh Government College, Udayan College, Adamjee, Notre Dame, Rajarbagh College, Nur Mohammad, Munshi Abdur Rouf College, Siddheswari College, Green Line Polytechnic, Dhaka Polytechnic, Mahbubur Rahman Institute of Science and Technology, and others from the capital.