Dhaka, April 2 -- The High Court has temporarily lifted a ban on politics at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology or BUET, reigniting concerns of abuse by the powerful or fights for control that have previously led to deaths on the campus.

Sabequn Nahar Sony was the first to fall - shot dead during clashes between rival factions of the BNP's student front Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal over control in 2002 when the party was in power.

Arif Raihan Dip, a leader of the Awami League's student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League or BCL, was the second victim in 2013 - hacked to death at a residential hall by another student suspected to have ties with radical group Hifazat-e Islam.

The latest fatality, of Abrar Fahad, occurred at a...