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০১ আগস্ট, ২০২৩ ১১:৪৫ অপরাহ্ণ
Guardians demand release of BUET students arrested from Tanguar Haor
Guardians
demand release of BUET students arrested from Tanguar Haor
Guardians of 31
students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), who
were arrested from Tanguar Haor in Sunamaganj on Sunday, demanded immediate
release of the students.
They made the demand
at a press conference held at Shaheed Minar in the university on Tuesday
afternoon.
Claiming their sons as
innocent, the guardians at the press conference said allegation that their sons
are involved with politics is baseless, false and motivated.
Police members of
Tahirpur Police Station on Sunday afternoon arrested 34 people, including 24
current and seven former students of BUET from a trip in Tanguar Haor. Later,
police lodged a case against the students with the police station under
Anti-Terrorism Act.
Police claimed that
all the arrested people are involved with the politics of Chhatra Shibir. They
went to Tanguar Haor to hold secret meeting and hatch anti-government
conspiracy. They had plan to hamper public safety and do harm of public’s lives
and assets.
Ali Ahsan Zunaed,
brother of BUET student Ali Ammar, read out a written speech at the press
conference on behalf the guardians of the arrested students.
In the press
conference, Zunaed said, “The BUET students went to a trip in Tanguar Haor on
July 29. They were found unavailable for a long time when the guardians wanted
to contact with them over mobile phone sets. At about 10.00pm on that day, they
made phone calls to their guardians and sought national identity card numbers
as per the instruction of police. They told their guardians that police
detained them during a trip in the haor and took them to Tahirpur Police
Station and interrogated them there. Police told the students that they will be
freed after getting their national identity card numbers.”
He said, “Police took
the mobile phone sets from the students after talks. We tried to contact with
local superintendent of police and officer-in-charge but failed.”
Zunaed in his written
speech said, “After passing an anxious moment, we came to know that the
students were shown arrested in Anti-Terrorism Act through various reports of
media on Monday afternoon. They (BUET students) went there to plan sabotage! We
are surprised by this fabricate allegation. We think that this type of
ridiculous and false allegation is completely ill-motivated.”
They said they can
challenge it that their sons are not involved with any kinds of anti-state
activities.
“We are saying it
clearly that they (BUET students) are general students. We cannot understand
that for which part of conspiracy such a dangerous case has been lodged against
them,” said the guardians in the written speech.
The guardians of the
arrested students have expressed concern about the future safety of their sons.
They demanded immediate release of the students.
BUET students ATM
Abrar Muhtadi’s mother Wahida Nasrin, Haisam Bin Mahbub’s mother Fatema Begum
and Afif Anwar’s father Anwarul Haque, among others, were present at the press
conference.