Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) cadres severely beat up Minar Baidya, staff reporter of Dainik Ajker Kagoj, and pushed him off his room window on the second floor of Jagannath Hall in Dhaka University (DU) Friday night.
The victim Minar said the JCD attacked him because he sat in the front row of the dormitory's TV room on Wednesday night.
Minar, also a fourth year student of Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and later shifted to Trauma Centre.
Both his legs were fractured in the attack besides causing serious injury to his waist and some other parts of body.
Minar said a group of around 20 JCD cadres, student wing of the ruling BNP, loyal to hall unit JCD Secretary Sagar Majumdar, launched an attack on him around 11:30pm. He said the group mostly of freshmen armed with hockey sticks and iron rods pushed him off the window of his room 283.
He said he had an altercation with some JCD activists on Wednesday night at the hall's TV room and the JCD men ousted him from the dormitory threatening to beat him up.
Minar, as he was bleeding on a DMCH bed, said he had informed the matter to JCD DU President Hasan Mamun about the incident. He told him to return to his dormitory and assured him that no one will beat him. "But as soon as I returned they entered my room and beat me up," he said crying in pain.
Minar mentioned the names of a few of the attackers. They were: Subrato Sharma, Partho Dev Mandal, Sanjay, Apurba, Niloy, Pinaky Hira, Dipankar Biswas, Vaskar, Biswajit, Avijit and Swapan.
Witnesses said JCD hall unit President Biplab Pande Bipu was present while Minar was being beaten and he did not try to restrain the attackers.
Teachers and students of mass communication and journalism yesterday brought out a silent procession on the campus and submitted a memorandum to the Vice-chancellor (VC) demanding punishment to the attackers.
VC Prof SMA Faiz received the memorandum and assured them of immediate stern actions against the attackers.
An urgent meeting of the academic committee of mass communication and journalism department demanded expulsion of the attackers from the university and bearing the expenses for Minar's treatment by the university.
Dhaka University Teachers' Association (Duta) and Dhaka University Journalists' Association (Duja) condemned the attack on Minar and demanded immediate expulsion of the attackers.
Meanwhile, JCD expelled three of its activists, Partho, Sanjay and Vaskar, from the organisation for their involvement in the attack and stripped the JCD hall unit Vice President Pinaky and hall unit Joint Secretary Diponkar of their posts.
