The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

A legal notice was issued on Dhaka University Authority to show cause within three days as to why the students who passed HSC from Madrashah Board would not get admission to the Mass Communication and Journalism, English and Bangla Departments of the University.

Legal notice was served by the Court on the basis of the application of two admission seekers- Mehedi Hasan who secured 48th position and Md Muhsin Uddin who got 185th position in the 'Kha' Unit admission test of the university this year. Their scores in admission test qualify them to get admitted to any department under the Faculty of Arts of DU, informed sources said. The legal notice was issued on the Vice Chancellor Prof SMA Faiz, Pro VC Prof AFM Yusuf Haider, Registrar Syed Rezaur Rahman, Dean of Arts Faculty Prof Sadrul Amin, Examination Controller and the Chairman of the Departments.

Sources said the students would file a writ petition, if they did not get satisfactory response to the legal notice within three days. Barrister Abdur Razzak of The Law Council issued the legal notice on behalf of the students refused admission.

Acknowledging the receipt of the legal notice, DU VC said normally the Deans of the faculties and the Academic Council took decisions regarding admission of students to their departments.

It is learnt that such a decision was taken neither in the meetings of Syndicate, nor the Academic Council or the Deans Committee.

However, the new rule was mentioned in the university prospectus for the current year in which the Madrasah students could not seek admission to the aforementioned departments.

Prof Sadrul Amin, Dean of Arts Faculty said he did not know anything about decision not to admit Madrashah students as he was in jail during the admission test.