The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

The Dhaka University authority decided to send a leter to the Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed making a request to free the arrested teachers.

The Syndicate of the university yesterday took this decision at a meeting with Vice-chancellor Prof SMA Faiz in the chair.

They will also urge the Chief Adviser in the leter to be sympathised with the arrested teachers and students.

Four DU professors -- Dr Harun-or-Rashid, Dr Anwar Hossain, Dr Sadrul Amin and Dr Nim Chandra Bhoumik -- are now in jail. They were arrested on charge of provoking student unrest on the campus on August 20-22.

The DU Syndicate also accepted a report of a university probe commitee, headed by pro-VC Prof AFM Yusuf Haider. The commitee was formed following the killing of Prof Dr Aftab Ahmed at his campus residence on September 26 last year.

Sources said the commitee in its report recommended the DU Syndicate to consider forming campus police and providing modern training to the university security guards to ensure security of the teachers and students on the campus.