Two activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Chittagong University (CU) unit allegedly assaulted a journalist physically in front of Amanat Hall on the campus on Friday night.
The journalist was identified as Md Shariful Islam, a student of Communication and Journalism department, academic session 2010-2011 and editor of campus based news portal Cutimes24.com. He was a former staff reporter of The New Age and CU correspondent of The Independent.
The two BCL activists were known as Mizanur Rahman and Tawhidul Islam Jimel, leader of ‘Concord’ a shuttle train based group of BCL. Shariful Islam said “I was gossiping with my friends in front of Amanat hall. At this time Mizanur Rahman, activist of CU BCL, was insulted all journalist of CU. When I asked him why you were insulted all journalists, after hearing this, Mizanur assaulted me physically and threatened to kill me.” According to eye witness, Mizanur Rahman assaulted Shariful physically at around 9pm on Friday night. After seeing this we rescued him, added witness.
When contacted, CU BCL postponed committee president and general secretary declined to comments about this incident. SM Jakir Hossain, general secretary of BCL central Unit told The Independent, “Those who attacked journalist they may not be activists of BCL. If any activist of BCL University unit was involved with such kind of activities we will take action against them”. “In this connection, Shariful Islam filed a case against Mizanur Rahman and Tawhidul Islam Jimel with Hathazari Police Station,” said Ismail Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Hathazari Police station.
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