HC Asks BUET To Allows BCL Leader Imtiaz In Dormitory

The High Court on Monday asked the vice chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology to allow civil engineering department student Imtiaz Hossen Rahim in his dormitory.

Earlier the university authorities cancelled the residency permission of Imtiaz for organising the showdown of the BCL leaders and supporters on the campus since March 29.

The court also asked the reason as why  the university authorities decisions about Imtiaz would not be declared illegal. Simultaneously the court demands the explanation regarding the matter. 

The bench of Justice Md Khasruzzaman and Justice KM Zahid Sarwar passed the order staying the BUET decision of cancelling his residency, responding to a petition filed by Imtiaz.

Earlier on April 1, the same High Court bench, responding to the BCl leader’s writ petition, allowed all political organisations’ activities on the campus.

The court paved the way for student politics by granting a stay on the university authorities’ October 11, 2019 decision of banning the activities of all political organisations on the campus.

The university authorities banned all the activities of political organisations following general students’ protest over the killing of BUET student Abrar Fahad by some BCL leaders at the university’s Sher-e-Bangla Hall on October 7, 2019.

The High Court also issued a rule asking the secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division, the BUET vice chancellor and its registrar to explain why the decision of banning activities of all political organisations on the campus would not be declared unconstitutional.

The BUET authorities expelled Imtiaz from its dormitory as a resident student following the demand of protesting general students.

BUET general students, however, have been demanding the permanent expulsion of Imtiaz and some other students for resuming BCL activities on the BUET campus on March 29 through a showdown, defying the ban on political activities on the campus.