Allegations of 5 Ex-Students' Arrest for Funding The Protesters

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police's (DMP) Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested five former students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) and handed them over to Sylhet Police.

On Tuesday (January 25), Sylhet Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Mohammad Nisharul Arif confirmed the matter to media.

"The detainees are on the way now," he said. A case is being prepared against them.

Two of the detainees have been identified. They are Reza Noor Moin, a former student of SUST's Architecture Department and Habibur Rahman of CSE Department.

Earlier, law enforcers picked them up from different parts of the capital.

Family and friends of the detained students allege that they have been detained for providing some financial support to the ongoing movement of SUST demanding the resignation of the VC.

According to a CID source, other police units often seek CID assistance. This is actually an operation of Sylhet Metropolitan Police. The CID only helped them.

Shah Razi Siddique, a former student of SUST, told the media that Habibur Rahman is my roommate for the last two and a half years. He was picked up by CID personnel from Sector 6 of Uttara last night.

He also said Habib's family's financial situation was not good. His parents live in Tangail. Yesterday Habib got a visa to go to Germany. Hae got a job in a software company there. Reza's child, on the other hand, is very young.

Meanwhile, CID Additional Superintendent of Police Azad Rahman told the media that the CID had not made any arrests.