A case was filed against 66 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League including its former president and general secretary Al Nahian Khan Joy and Lekhak Bhattacharjee on charge of attempting to murder some Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) men on Dhaka University campus around two years back.
JCD central committee’s Joint General Secretary Ariful Islam, former general secretary of the DU unit, filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Aktaruzzaman.
Taking the allegations into cognizance, the court ordered Shahbagh police station to accept the case as ‘ezhar’ after recording the plaintiff’s statement.
The accused include BCL leaders Saddam Hussain, Sanjit Chandra Das, Riazul Islam, Monem Shahriar Munum Samiuzzaman Sami, Asif Hossain, Rehanul Lovely, Sabbir Hossain, Ariful Islam Arif, Wahidul Islam Akash, Badhan Mia, Azizul Haque, Obaidul Hossain and Solaiman Habib.
According to the case statement, a delegation of the then newly formed JCD committee of the DU went to the camps to pay a courtesy call on the then vice chancellor and proctor on September 2, 2022.
Suddenly, some BCL men equipped with sharp weapons attacked the JCD members when they reached Sir AF Rahman Hall, leaving several including then committee’s president and general secretary Sohel and Arif respectively injured.