Dhaka, March 9 -- Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) brought out a protest march and blocked the Dhaka-Aricha highway early Sunday, demanding capital punishment of rapists.

Protesting students from different residential halls began to march towards Dhaka-Aricha highway adjacent to the university's main entrance around 2:30 am to lay a symbolic blockade that lasted for 15 minutes, as per a BSS report.

Addressing the blockade programme, Nazmul Islam, a student of Anthropology department, said, "An eight-year-old child in Magura was raped last Thursday. On Saturday, a young man raped a third-grade girl in Gazipur and recorded the scene on his smartphone. Due to the lack of visible justice in these incidents, crimes like rape are gra...