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Shabi Reporter//

On Wednesday (July 31) in Sylhet, the police arrested three former and current students and took them to the police station after searching the mess. However, five teachers of Shahjalal Science and Technology University took them away from the police station on Thursday afternoon.

They were brought out on bond from Sylhet Kotwalish police station at around 2:30 today. Earlier on Wednesday, the police arrested them from a mess in Niharipara area adjacent to the university.

Those three are – Monir Hossain, a former student of Public Administration Department of Shahjalal University, Md. of the 2017-18 academic year of Shabi’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. Sohag and Sylhet Murarichand (MC) College of Zoology students. Anas Mia. All of them live in a mess house in Block C-71 in Niharipara.

Mamunur Rashid, an HSC candidate in the mess, said, “I woke up at 3:30 am to the sound of police sirens. The police searched everything in the room. Asking everyone where the house is, whether anyone is in a group or not. Then check everyone’s mobile. Later three people were picked up. wanted to take me I left because I am a student.

It is learned that the teachers went to the Sylhet Kotwali Model Police Station around 12:30 pm on Thursday and brought them out after discussing with the Officer-in-Charge (OC) for two hours. Among the teachers were – Professor Ashraf Uddin of Mathematics Department, Professor Saiful Islam, Professor Mozammel Haque of Food Engineering and Technology Department, Professor Shah Atiqul Haque of Sociology Department and Khalidur Rahman of Statistics Department.
Professor Ashraf Uddin said in this regard, ‘Thursday at 11 o’clock we got news that those students have been detained as suspects. They were heading for legal proceedings. After talking to the OC of the police station, he agreed to release the students in our custody. The students are now safe.

Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Moin Uddin said, “We got news at night that the accused is staying in that mess.” At night we go to mess. Some of the students opened the door, but the door of one room was locked from the outside, but the students were staying inside. When I opened the room after one and a half hours, I brought three suspicious people to the police station. Later, when the teachers came, the students were left to their own devices.