The authorities of Islamic University in Kushtia on Tuesday lodged a case against outsiders with Shailkupa police station over assaulting two of its students.
The authorities of the university also issued an order prohibiting the movement of outsiders on the campus without any permission of the university authorities.
Police, however, arrested an outsider for his alleged involvement in assaulting the students, the police officials said.
Shailkupa police station officer-in-charge Aminul Islam told UNB that the university's acting registrar HM Ali Hasan filed the case against two named and 20 to 25 unnamed persons with the police station early Tuesday.
On a drive, a team of police conducted a drive in the upazila and arrested Jahangir Hossain alias Jhantu in the case.
Police were trying to arrest the other accused and involved in the incident, the OC added.
"IU is only open to its students. Outsiders cannot stay, roam around and do any activities on the campus without the permission of the proctor or authorities concerned," IU proctor Professor M Shahadat Hossain Azad said.
If they do not comply with the notice, the authorities will take steps against them, he added.
Earlier, Mehedi Hasan of management department and Jahid of finance and banking department under 2018-19 academic sessions locked into an altercation with the outsiders over capturing videos of their female classmates of the students at IU Lake area.
Mehedi and Jahid were allegedly assaulted by the outsiders at Sheikhpara Bazar adjacent to the campus on Monday evening over the issue. That left the students critically injured on the spot.
Local people rescued the students and took them to IU central hospital for treatment where the attending doctor referred them to Kushtia General Hospital for better treatment, the hospital’s office assistant Khandokar Naimul Reza said.
A group of fellow students went to the university’s main entrance and blockaded the Kushtia-Jhenaidah Highway demanding immediate arrest of the outsiders and restriction for campus entry of the outsiders.
No vehicles were allowed to move on the highway during the blockade, causing immense suffering for the passengers from faraway districts.
A team of Kushtia highway police and IU proctorial body led by proctor Professor M Shahadat Hossain Azad went to the spot to bring the situation under control but failed.
The students, at one stage, went to the IU VC’s bungalow and threw bricks at its collapsible gate to press home their demand.
The students later withdrew their demonstration on the campus at around 11:00pm as the university authorities and Kushtia additional superintendent of police (special branch) Farhad Hossain assured them of looking into the matter.