A group of BUET students have taken position outside the vice-chancellor’s office demonstrating for a seven-point charter of demand, including justice for Abrar Fahad murder.
They have also locked the main gate, reports bdnews24.com.
VC Saiful Islam was at his office on the first floor of the building when the protests were under way on Tuesday.
About 300 students raised slogans in protest against the VC and his administration’s “silence” over Abrar’s murder, for which the protesters demanded maximum punishment, death by hanging, of the killers.
The body of Abrar, a second-year student of electrical and electronic engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology or BUET, was found on the staircase of his dormitory, in the early hours of Monday.
He was called up from his room at 7:30pm on Sunday, said police, quoting the students of the hall.
An autopsy at Dhaka Medical College Hospital subsequently revealed that Abrar was bludgeoned with blunt objects.
There were numerous injury marks on his hands, feet and back, a doctor said, adding the student died due to internal bleeding.
His death has triggered protests on the BUET and Dhaka University campuses.
His classmates claimed that Bangladesh Chhatra League men beat him to death suspecting his involvement with Islami Chhatra Shibir.
A two-probe panel has been constituted to look into the allegations, BCL's central committee announced.
Footage captured by a closed-circuit camera installed on the residential hall's second floor showed a few people dragging Abrar down the corridor by his hands and feet.
The individuals caught on camera were all junior leaders and activists of the hall's BCL unit, according to some students.
Police have arrested and remanded for five days 10 BCL leaders of BUET.
The protesters from different residential halls gathered in procession at the Shaheed Minar premises of the university around 10am on Tuesday.
After daylong protests there, they took position outside the VC’s office around 5pm.