A fresher of the Human Resource Management department of Islamic University in Kushtia on Sunday lodged a written complaint with the university administration seeking punishment of those involved in torturing him near Birshreshtha Hamidur Rahman Auditorium on the campus.
Tahmin Osman, a first-year student of the department, lodged a complaint with the university proctor Professor M Shahadat Hossain Azad, student adviser Professor Shelin Nasrin and acting registrar HM Ali Hasan in this regard.
The student filed the written complaint four days after his father submitted a written complaint to the university registrar HM Ali Hasan seeking punishment through email.
According to the written complaint, a group of students including Shuvo, Mizanur Rahman Emon and Shakib under 2021-22 academic session brought the victim to the Birshreshtha Hamidur Rahman Auditorium area after his orientation class held at the human resource management department at IU business administration faculty building on September 2.
The students later misbehaved with the victim in the name of acquaintance with them. They mentally tortured the victim several times from September 2 to 3, the complaint said.
The victim, however, filed a written complaint with IU proctor, student adviser and the acting registrar in this connection seeking punishment of the student involved in torturing him.
Contacted, the victim said that Shuvo, Mizanur Rahman Emon and Shakib under the 2021-22 session of the university tortured him mentally for several times. He was frightened and felt insecure on the campus, said the victim.
He demanded immediate punishment of the students involved in torturing him.
IU proctor Professor M Shahadat Hossain Azad told UNB that they formed a five-member probe body led by business administration faculty dean Professor M Shaiful Islam soon after he received the complaint from the victim to look into the matter.
The body was asked to submit its report within seven working days, he said.
The proctor also said that they would take stern action against the accused involved in the incident after getting the report from the probe body.
Earlier, the Islamic University authorities on August 21 expelled five of its students — a former leader and four former activists of the ruling Awami League-backed student organization
Bangladesh Chhatra League —for torturing a first-year female student.
The expelled students are then BCL university unit vice-president Shanjida Chowdhury Ontora of statistics department and her associates Tabassum Islam and Maobiya Jahan of finance and banking department, Halima Khatun Urmi of fine arts department and Israt Jahan Mim of law department.
The female student was tortured and intimidated by Ontora and her associates at Deshratna Sheikh Hasina Hall on the campus in Kushtia at night on February 12.
Ontora, at one stage, forced the victim to get undressed and videoed the incident on the mobile phone.
Ontora also threatened that she would make the video viral on social media if the victim disclosed the matter to anyone, according to the complaint the victim filed with the university administration, including the university proctor, student adviser and hall provost, on February 14.
On February 15, the university authorities formed a five-member probe body headed by IU law department chairperson Reba Mondol.
The bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil on February 16 asked the Kushtia deputy commissioner to investigate the incident by a three-member body and submit the report to it in seven working days.
Hearing a writ petition filed by IU alumnus and lawyer Gazi Mohammad Mohsin, the court also asked the university authorities to keep the accused BCL leader and activists off the campus during the investigation.
