A teacher of Dhaka University`s Public Administration Department was injured while freeing a student detained by the police during the March for Justice program of the ongoing quota reform movement. Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury, another teacher who was with her, was also harassed. The students of the department strongly condemned it.
On Wednesday (July 31) noon, a policeman forcibly used physical force and pushed the female teacher while a student was being picked up in the area between Doyel Chatwar and the High Court.
The teacher, Shehreen Amin Bhuiyan, was injured in hand, knee and leg.
The March for Justice program is meant to protest against the killings, mass arrests and lawsuits centred on the quota reform movement.
At one stage of the scuffle, the police took the student into custody. Later, in a statement at 3:30 pm, the students condemned the incident. At the time, after a departmental investigation against each policeman involved in the attack, he demanded the maximum punishment according to the penal code and demanded an official apology from the Bangladesh Police for this attack.
The statement said, "We, all the students of Public Administration Department of Dhaka University express our strong hatred towards the Bangladesh Police Administration regarding the police attack on Dhaka University campus on the teachers of our department, Shehreen Amin Chowdhury and Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury."
Shehreen said, "When the police tried to pick up a student, we obstructed the move. Then I questioned the police about his crime and suggested that he be frisked in front of us.
"But the policeman didn`t listen and used force. When I tried to take the student by twisting my hand, the policeman pushed me when I tried to grab him again. At this time I fell on the road. I sustained injuries in the knee hurt, but was hurt in the arm more."
