The Judicial Inquiry Commission formed to investigate the violent incidents on Dhaka University campus in August is likely to suggest banning politics from the universities by teachers and students as lackeys of political parties.
The Commission is expected to place some important recommendations in its report to be published on October 22 to uphold congenial atmosphere on campuses.
The report is being prepared on the basis of depositions of people of different sections of the society, video footages, news clippings and evidence of the violent incidents, Commission sources said.
The key recommendations include amendment of the 1973 Ordinance, banning campus politics and steps for removing the gap created between the army and teachers-students.
Sources said the Commission would also recommend changing the proctorial law of the universities because the law is not suitable to face uncalled for situations.
Chief of the Inquiry Commission Justice Habibur Rahman Khan said the main purpose of the report would be to help increase the quality of education of the universities and to smoothen teacher-student relations. He said he would recommend measures so that such incidents like those of the month of August do not occur on the campus in future.
The Commission has so far talked to 94 individuals of different sections of the society including representatives of Dhaka University authorities, journalists, professionals, armymen, police personnel and ordinary witnesses of the incident of beating up a student
Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University Prof SMA Faiz, Maj Gen Sina Ibn Jamali, Commandant of National Defence College Lt Gen ATM Zahirul Islam, President of Asiatic Society Prof Sirajul Islam and former Adviser of the Caretaker Government Sultana Kamal are some of the important persons, who exchanged views with the Commission in this regard.
Besides, the Commission took depositions from the arrested teachers of Dhaka University and president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) who are now in jail.
The arrested teachers are: Prof Sadrul Amin, president of Dhaka University Teachers’ Association (DUTA), general secretary of the Association Prof Anwar Hossain, Prof Harun-or Rashid, Dean of Social Science Faculty, Prof Neem Chandra Bhoumik of Applied Physics Department, and Azizul Bari Helal, president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD).
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