‘Mentally unstable’ man beaten to death on DU campus

Authorities at Dhaka University on Thursday formed a seven-member committee to investigate the death of a man in mob lynching inside the university’s Fazlul Haque Muslim Hall.

The victim, Tofazzal, was beaten to death allegedly by a group of students of the hall suspecting him as a thief, hospital and university sources said.

‘We are shocked at the death of the man,’ said Dhaka University proctor Mohammad Saifuddin Ahmed. He said that a seven-member committee had been formed to investigate the incident and asked to submit its report by this evening.

According to witnesses, the man sneaked into the hall on Wednesday evening. Some students then caught and interrogated him about the thefts of six mobile phones and wallets from the hall the previous day.

Under intense questioning the man agreed to tell them about the real thieves if they give him something to eat.

The students fed him, but the man failed to give the promised names.

Then the angry students beat the man for two hours starting from 10:00pm, according to the witnesses.

When the proctorial team got informed about the incident, it went to the spot and took severely injured Tofazzal to hospital for treatment. The doctors declared him dead.

Tofazzal, according to some on Dhaka University campus, was a mentally unstable person.

The deceased Tofazzal hailed from Kathaltoli Union of Pathorghata Upazila in Barguna district and he was an orphan.

The proctor said that they were preparing to file a police case.

He said the probe committee is headed by residential teacher of Fazlul Haque Muslim hall Alamgir Kabir.

The six other members of the probe are — Mohammad Shafiul Aalam Khan, Professor Johir Raihan, Mohammad Mahabub Alam, Asib Ahmed, and. Touhidul Islam and AKM Nure Alam Siddique.

New Age