Resignation demand an emotional one: Altaf
Staff Correspondent
Home Minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury yesterday said the students and teachers at Dhaka University enraged by the brutal attack on prominent writer Humayun Azad demanded his resignation out of emotion and it is their democratic right.The minister told this to the BBC Radio but dodged the question about whether he would resign or not. Some incidents occurred leaving a number of students and police injured while police obstructed the agitating students, said the minister responding to a question on Wednesday's police atrocities on the students' demonstration on Dhaka University campus that demanded his resignation. "A proper enquiry has been ordered to investigate how and why it happened," Altaf said, adding, "We will take proper action once we receive the enquiry report." On progress in the probe, Altaf said one has already been arrested from among those who unleashed the attack on the writer and he (arrested) is being interrogated. The minister said that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is going ahead with the investigation in the light of the statements of two eyewitnesses under Section 164. "We have handed over the case to the CID to make it speedy, neutral and effective," Altaf said.
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