The New Nation - Internet Edition

DU Correspondent

Three students of Dhaka University (DU) were temporarily expelled Saturday on charge of assaulting Zafar Ahmed Khan, a teacher of Statistics Department during a football match on the university playground Thursday evening.

The expelled students were identified as Mahbub and Milton of Bangla Department and Rokonuzzaman Talukder of Public Administration Department.

DU authority also formed a three-member probe committee headed by its Pro-Vice-Chancellor AFM Yusuf Haider to submit a report on the incident within next two weeks.

Terming the assault on a teacher unprecedented in the history of DU, Proctor AK Feroze Ahmed said that appropriate action would be taken against the students involved on the report of the inquiry committee.