Dhaka, Oct. 22 -- A group of residential students of the Khaleda Zia Hall staged a demonstration at Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia on Thursday night demanding punishment to an activist of the university unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), on the charge of harassing a female student and attacking her male friend.

About one hundred residential students gathered on the hall premises and staged the demonstration there demanding expulsion of the activist from the university permanently at about 8:00pm.

Witnesses said that a group of IU BCL unit activists led by Mehedi Hasan Hafiz and Shahin Alam, loyal to the university BCL unit General Secretary Nasim Ahmed Joy, locked into an altercation with Popy Khatun, a master's student of IU ...