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24 Comilla University teachers quit administrative posts
Comilla: Some 24 teachers of Comilla University have resigned from different administrative and committee posts to press home their six-point demand, reports UNB.
They submitted their resignation letters to university registrar Mujibur Rahman Majumdar on Tuesday afternoon, said Dr Abu Taher, president of Comilla University Teachers Association.
Earlier on January 22, the university teachers went on a work abstention boycotting classes and examinations to press home their six-point demand, including the arrest of those involved in the killing of a BCL leader, who was shot to death by some miscreants on July 30, 2016, and those attacked two university teachers recently.
As the vice-chancellor kept mum over their demands, the 24 teachers resigned from the administrative and committee posts, said Abu Taher.
Contacted, VC Prof Ali Ashraf said, Were trying to reach a solution over the problems of the teachers.
One to die for killing schoolgirl
Our correspondent, Chapainawabganj
A tribunal here yesterday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing a schoolgirl in 2016.
The condemned convict is Abdul Malek, son of Abdul Latif of Baluga Diar village in Sadar upazila.
According to the prosecution, the convict swooped on four schoolgirls including Konika, daughter of Laxman Ghosh of Diar Dhainagar village in Sadar upazila, at Manipur intersection and hit them with sharp weapons while returning home from school on May 27, 2016, leaving them injured. Later, they were rushed to sadar hospital where doctors declared Konika dead.
Local people caught Abdul Malek and handed him over to police.
