The police on Thursday filed a case with Shahbagh police station against more than 85 students for storming into the secretariat and staging protests there on Wednesday.
The prosecuted students staged the demonstration rejecting the results of the HSC and equivalent examinations in which they failed.
聽Sub-inspector Md Raihan Uddin of the police station filed the case and 26 students, out of detained 54 who stormed the secretariat and staged demonstration there on Wednesday demanding cancellation of 鈥榙iscriminatory鈥� results of this year鈥檚 HSC examination and re-evaluation using subject mapping method on all subjects, were shown arrested in the case, the police said.
Besides the 26 arrested ones, 60 or 70 other unnamed demonstrators were also made accused in the case, said the police.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 deputy commissioner for media and public relations, Muhammad Talebur Rahamn, said that they released 28 other detained students from the Shahbagh police station as they were apparently found 鈥榥ot involved鈥� in vandalism or threatening inside the secretariat and their parents gave undertaking promising that their children would never participate in the acts they did on Wednesday.
Police in its primary interrogation found 26 arrested involved in banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, DMP in a press release claimed in the afternoon.
Shahbagh police station officer-in-charge Shahabuddin Shaheen said that they had arrested the 26 students analysing video footage as they were directly involved in vandalism in the secretariat.
He said that they had already sent them to the court that sent the students to jail.
On Wednesday afternoon, a group of students stormed the secretariat and staged a demonstration in front of building number 6 which houses offices of the education ministry demanding cancellation of 鈥榙iscriminatory鈥� results of HSC examinations.
The police detained 54 demonstrators from the spot.
The incident took place inside the secretariat though a ban imposed by Dhaka Metropolitan Police on meetings, rallies, processions and protests near the chief adviser鈥檚 official residence Jamuna and the secretariat was in effect since August 25.
The interim government, after holding examinations on seven subjects, on August 20 cancelled the remaining six examinations due to the students鈥� protests, and published results using the subject mapping method on the cancelled subjects, based on the students鈥� results in the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations, and through the usual evaluation of answer sheets of the seven examinations.
