The High Court (HC) on Wednesday granted six-week anticipatory bail to 35 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) including its president Kazi Rawanakul Islam Shraban and general secretary Saif Mahmud Jewel in separate cases filed by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders over clashes at Dhaka University.
The court also asked them to surrender to a lower court within this period.
The HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Md. Salim passed the order.
The two biggest student organisations in the country locked into clashes on 22 May and on 24 May while the JCD men tried to enter the Dhaka University (DU) campus with processions.
JCD leaders and activists alleged that at least 30 of their leaders and activists were injured in the attack by BCL men.
Police filed a case over the clashes with Paltan Police Station on 22 May while 22, president of DU’s Shahidullah Hall BCL Zahidul Islam Zahid lodged another complaint with Shahbagh Police Station against several named and unnamed JCD leaders and activists.
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