The police arrested a Jahangirnagar University student, who allegedly took part in lynching of former Bangladesh Chhatra League leader Shamim Ahmed, in Rajendranagar area in Gazipur on Sunday.
The arrested, Mahmudul Haque Rayhan, 22, is a third-year English department student of the university.
The police also changed the complaint by dropping a name and including a new one over the murder, following the direction of the university administration as the proctorial body quoted the name of an innocent student on the charge sheet 鈥榤istakenly鈥�.
Ashulia police station officer in-charge Abu Bakar Siddique told 抖阴精品 that they would seek a seven-day remand of Mahmudul from the court to interrogate him over the death.
The OC also added that other seven accused in a case were on the run.
The JU proctor Professor AKM Rashidul Alam said that Mahmudul was sent to jail on Sunday.
On September 18, Shamim was beaten to death on the Jahangirnagar University campus on allegations that the victim was involved in attacking protesters during the anti-discrimination movement in July.
On September 20, the JU administration suspended eight students of the university and filed a case against them over the incident.聽
On September 20, the police arrested a BCL leader, Habibur Rahman Habib, in Dhamrai area in Dhaka to interrogate him over the murder.聽
Soon after the suspension order, the university teachers, students, and family members claimed that history department student Jubayer Ahmed, under 2014鈥�2015 session, was named in the case, although he left the campus after completion of studies about six months ago and was not on the campus when Shamim was killed.
A press release, issued on Sunday by the JU administration, read that the previous suspension order was scrapped in a meeting of the university administration on Saturday night as an innocent student was named in the list 鈥榤istakenly鈥�.
The administration replaced previously quoted Jubayer Ahmed with second year pharmacy department student Saiful Islam Bhuiyan, following an investigation to identify the students involved in beating Shamim to death, the release added.
The police dropped Jubayer鈥檚 name from the complaint and replaced it with Saiful and also rearranged the list of the accused by changing positions of number 1 and number 8 accused by each other.
Meanwhile, the JU unit of Student Movement Against Discrimination in a statement on Sunday demanded a fair investigation into the murder of Shamim.
They alleged that Shamim died in police custody and at least two members鈥揝wadhin Sen and Aniccha Parvin鈥揳mong five of the investigation committee of the university were 鈥榥ot neutral鈥�.
鈥楾hese teachers wrote the JU vice-chancellor after the death, demanding curbing so-called supremacy of student movement coordinators on the campus. They cannot investigate the incident from a fair angle,鈥� the statement added.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Barishal reported that a group of students of Barishal University formed a human chain on the campus on Sunday protesting lynching of Tofazzal Hossain at Dhaka University.
Under the banner of Barguna District Student Welfare Association, they demanded exemplary punishment for the responsible people.
Dhaka University already temporarily suspended eight students and cancelled their residential accommodations over their alleged involvement in lynching of Tofazzal.
The authorities also removed the provost of Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall, Professor Shah Md Masum.
Six of the eight identified men, all former activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of Awami League, were arrested on September 19, and gave confessional statements under the Section 164 before a metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Friday confessing their involvement.
They were sent to jail.