Rajshahi Medicale College chapter of Chhatra League, the student front of ruling Awami League, clashed with Juba League, the youth wing of the ruling party, in the northern city leaving at least 30 injured Thursday night.
The police said that they arrested nine BCL men from an RMC hostel and seized from their possession a 9-MM pistol, two bullets and a large quantity of other homemade sharp weapons Friday morning.
Chhatra League sources said that the clashes were prompted by some Juba League men's bid to extort Tk one lakh from their teacher, who is also the general secretary of Rajshahi chapter of pro ruling party doctors' forum—Shadhinata Chikitshak Parishad.
They said that on Thursday at around 1.30 PM some Juba League men had gone to chamber of Mohidul Hasan, assistant director of RMCH and general secretary of Shadhinata Chikitshak Parishad and demanded the money, giving the reference of former Rajshahi city Juba League president Asaduzzaman Asad.
The angry Juba League men at one stage beat up Dr Mohibul Hasan as he refused to pay.
Dr Hasan was taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital for treatment.
On hearing the news, the students of Mohibul Hasan, all members of Chhatra League took out a procession from the hostels of the medical college in protest against Juba League men beating their teacher.
After marching through the college campus the Chhatra League members went to the local Awami League office at Laxmipur and set it on fire, smashed its doors and windows as well as television sets, a portrait of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman also got damaged in the process.
On hearing the news of the incident, Juba League men equipped with homemade lethal weapons chased the Chhatra League activists and sporadic clashes ensued between the two groups.
A huge contingent of police from Rajpara and Boalia police stations and a Rapid Action Battalion squad rushed to the spot and dispersed the two fighting groups from the spot.
Later, the Chhatra League activists went back to their hostels and carrying firearms and other lethal weapons tried to `oust' Juba League men from the area.
Panic gripped resident students at the hostels of Rajshahi Medical College as the Chattra League activists openly moved with firearms.
In the early morning of Friday, a joint squad of the police and RAB, led by a Rajshahi Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner raided the Shaheed Maynul Ahsan Pinku Hostel of the RMC and arrested nine Chhatra League activists from there.
The police said that they arrested Juel Rana, Sajib Ahmed, Rayhan Ali, Rasel Rana, Maruf Ahmed.
The police said that they were looking for other Chhatra League activists, they did not find.
The police said that they seized a 9-MM pistol, two bullets and a huge quantity of homemade sharp weapons.
RMP commissioner Mohammod Obaidullah told New Age that they were looking into the matter.
He said that police contingents had been deployed on the Rajshahi Medical College campus to stop a deterioration of the situation.
RMC principal said that he had called a meeting at his office to solve the problem through discussion between the warring groups.
Chattra League leaders filed two cases with Rajpara police station against the rivals.
Source : New Age
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