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 was blamed on ‘wrong treatment’ at the hospital.
Sub-inspector AKM Hasan Mahmudul Kabir filed the case with Sutrapur Police Station on Sunday night.
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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 National Medical College and Hospital, attached to the National Medical College, with dengue. He died on November 18.
After that students from Molla College and others vandalised the hospital, alleging negligence in treatment of Abhijit.
They also claimed that students from Kabi Nazrul College and Suhrawardy College supported by National Medical College students attacked them.
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Later, students from as many as 35 colleges clashed with the students of Kabi Nazrul College and Suhrawardy College, and vandalised property of the two colleges on Sunday, leaving at least 20 people injured.
The 35 colleges include 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.