Chattogram, Dec. 15 -- Students of Chittagong University (CU) on Monday locked the university's administrative building demanding the removal of Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic) Prof Mohammad Shamim Uddin Khan for his alleged controversial remarks over the killings of intellectuals in 1971.

Under the banner of Sarbadaliya Chhatra Oikya (All-Party Students' Unity), the students padlocked all gates of the administrative building around noon protesting his remarks denying the role of Pakistani occupation forces in the killing of intellectuals during the Liberation War.

Acting Registrar Prof Mohammad Saiful Islam, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic) Prof Mohammad Shamim Uddin Khan, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Administration) Prof Md Kamal Uddin and Contr...