Students of different private universities gathered at Rampura in the capital on Wednesday, expressing the state of insecurity they and others who participated in the student-led mass uprising were thrown into in wake of attacks on them.
The students demanded justice for murders of two students recently.
They raised the demand at a rally held on the Rampura Bridge in the capital on Wednesday afternoon.
Students criticised the interim government and law enforcing agencies鈥� role for not taking effective steps to improve the law and order situation that left people鈥檚 life insecure in the post-uprising period.
Protesting at the killing of East West University student Tajbir Hossain Shihan and American International University-Bangladesh Mohammad Simanto in separate incidents, Maruf Hasan, a student of Northern University Bangladesh, said that the involved persons must be brought to book immediately with a proper investigation.
BRAC University student Ayesha demanded the government and law enforcers take effective steps to improve the law and order situation to ensure security of life.
Referring to the killings, EWU student Redwan Ahmed alleged that the protesters in the uprising were now being targeted by a group and the government must work to ensure people鈥檚 security.
BRAC University student Shabab Hossain Meher alleged that a leader of banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the ousted Awami League, gave him life threat over the phone recently.
The rally partially blocked the bridge slowing vehicular movement from Badda to Rampura.
The students also brought out a torch procession that paraded nearby roads as part of their demonstration.
Besides, students of University of Information Technology and Sciences, Dhaka Imperial College, Northern University Bangladesh, Sonargaon University, Southeast University and others were present at the demonstration.
Moreover, Jatiya Nagarik Committee, a platform of the youths who played a pivotal role in the student-led mass uprising, spokesperson Samanta Shermeen on Wednesday at a press conference urged the government to address the recent secret killings of the students immediately.
鈥業f the students become unsafe now and if we do not see any proper action from the government in this regard then question will arise which people are in the government now,鈥� she added.
Simanto died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on December 14 after being stabbed by muggers in Narayanganj, according to the victim鈥檚 family.
According to police, Shihan died after he was stabbed by muggers on the Dhaka-Tangail highway on December 12.
