Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on Friday called a daylong hartal in Rajshahi city for Monday to press home their five-point demand, including the immediate arrest of the ‘real’ killers of Rajshahi University (RU) teacher AKM Shafiul Islam.
City and RU units of JCD jointly announced the shutdown from a protest rally held at Bhubanmohan Park in the city in the afternoon, city unit JCD President Mahfuzur Rahman Riton told journalists.RU sociology teacher Prof Shafiul Islam was stabbed by some unknown assailants on his way home at Chouddapai near the RU campus on November 15. He succumbed to his injures at the Intensive Care Unit of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital half an hour later.
RU Registrar Eltajul Haq filed a case with Motihar Police Station after the murder.
Eleven people, including Arif, Sagar and Jinnat Ali, were arrested by police on November 17 while Rab members arrested six people, including a local Jubo Dal leader, on November 23 in connection with the gruesome murder.
While police has been telling of a millitant link to the murder, RAB has come up with a report that the murder was the outcome of a personal grudge as the Shafiul Alam had allegedly harassed the wife of a JCD leader. Police has told journalists of their non-acceptance of the second theory.
