Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has demanded capital punishment of BUET student Abrar Fahad’s killers.
Central BCL acting president Al-Nahean Khan Joy made the statement in a media briefing at Modhur Canteen of Dhaka University on Thursday (Oct 10).
He said: "We sincerely urge the government to ensure capital punishment for the killers.”
The acting president also requested BCL leaders to keep an eye on the activities of their men in order to avoid such further tragedies.
Joy said: "I also urge the Chhatra League men to make sure that such incident does not get repeated in any other institution of Bangladesh."
He further requested the government to take exemplary action in this regard, so that no one dares to commit such crimes in future.
Meanwhile, Central Chhatra League, their other units including Dhaka University, brought out a procession from TSC and marched towards the Central Shaheed Minar.
Abrar, a second-year student of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, was found dead in the stairway of the Sher-e-Bangla dormitory in the early hours of Monday (Oct 7).
He was beaten to death reportedly by the university BCL leaders for his Facebook status regarding the instruments signed between India and Bangladesh and for his alleged involvement with Islami Chhatra Shibir, Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wing.
Quoting the students of the dormitory, police said that he was called up from his room at 7:30pm on Sunday (Oct 6).
Later, his body was found on the first-floor stairway of the hall at 2am on Monday and post mortem reports showed that he was beaten of death.
His father filed a murder case against 19 people with Chawkbazar police station on Monday evening and BCL later expelled 11 of its members permanently from the organization.
The incident sparked nationwide protests with protesters demanding justice for Abrar and capital punishment for the killers.