KUET declared closed, students asked to vacate halls
The decision was taken in a Syndicate meeting on Friday noon, the Vice-Chancellor Kazi Sajjad Hossain confirmed.
Earlier, KUET unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) held a press conference at about 11:00am and demanded not to expel anyone without prior investigating.
The development came as a tense situation has been prevailing on the campus since the death of Md Selim Hossain, a professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE), on November 30.
Selim was also the provost of Lalan Shah Hall of the university.
Students and teachers alleged that the BCL activists mentally tortured him centering an election of dining manager of the hall.
The KUET Teachers’ Association on Thursday called for abstention from academic activities over the death until an action is taken after scrutinizing the CCTV footage.
However, the university authorities formed a three-member probe committee to investigate the incident.
It was learnt that a group of students, led by KUET unit BCL general secretary Sadman Nahian Sejan, confronted Selim at noon of November 30 over the election after intercepting his way on the campus.
They then, went to the teacher’s office and held a closed-door meeting with him for about half an hour.
Later, Selim returned his residence adjacent to the campus for lunch.
As he did not get out from the bathroom after a long while and his wife Rita Khanam did not get any response despite several times calling, they broke open the door and found him unconscious.
