A case has been filed in connection to the attacks on Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) Vice President Nurul Haque Nur and others.
Police filed the case with Shahbagh police station accusing eight from Muktijuddho Mancha and unidentified 30-35 others on Tuesday (Dec 24), Shahbagh police Sub Inspector Roich Uddin told Bangla Tribune.
Among the accused, two of them - Al Mamun and Yasir Arafat Turjo - are already in police custody.
Al Mamun is the general secretary of Muktijuddha Mancha's central committee while Turjo is the general secretary of Muktijuddha Mancha's Dhaka University unit.
On Sunday (Dec 22), DUCSU VP Nur and at least 15 of his followers were injured in attacks by activists working under the banner of Muktijuddho Mancha on the campus after heated arguments.
Activists of Muktijuddha Mancha allegedly hurled brickbats at DUCSU office room when Nur and some of his associates were inside.
DU Chhatra League President Sanjit Chandra Das and General Secretary Saddam Hussain, who is also the assistant general secretary of DUCSU, came to the building and some activists of the organisation entered it with them.
An altercation broke out when BCL leaders told Nur that he asks "outsiders" to leave the DUCSU offices.
The BCL leaders left after reportedly slapping a five-minute deadline to clear the offices.
The attackers then drove out the Nur’s associate from his room. While leaving the building, they were beaten up by stick-wielding activists.
The attackers took away the hard drive of the building’s security cameras while leaving.
The members of the university’s proctorial team then took Nur and the others to the hospital.
Nur has come under attack on the campus and in different parts of the country after he defeated the BCL candidate in the DUCSU election in March.
He was the pick of the Bangladesh Council to Protect General Students’ Rights that spearheaded a movement forcing the government to scrap quotas, including for freedom fighters’ descendants, in civil service recruitment.