It has been decided to expel three students from different departments of Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) for lifetime as the investigation has proved the crime of being involved in ragging. The lifelong expelled students are Md. Al-Amin of the Department of Environmental Science and Technology (EST), Md. Sohail Rana of the Department of Mathematics and Md. Bariul Haque Mubin of the Department of Physics. They are all students of the university in the year 2017- 18.
The decision was taken at the 78th special meeting of the Regent Board in the conference room of the administrative building of JUST on Saturday afternoon. Many of the board members were physically present as well as virtually connected. JUST Vice-Chancellor Prof. Dr. Md. Anwar Hossain presided over the meeting.
At a meeting of the Board of Regents, it was decided that 10 more students from different departments would be required to sign a bond of taka 300 with the consent of their parents mentioning that in future they will never commit such heinous act of ragging . It was decided to expel those students from the university for one year if they did not sign the bond. These 10 students are: Mahabub Hasan Rocky of Physics Department, Sheikh Jubayer of Chemistry Department, Md. Raihan Rahman Rabbi of Physics Department, Md. Parvez Mia of Chemical Engineering (CHE) Department and Md. SB. Sanaullah Shakib, Md. Mohaiminul Haque and Md. Khaliduzzaman Sourav of Department of Environmental Science and Technology (EST), Rafiur Rahman Apurba of Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), Md. Salman Mollah of Chemical Engineering Department (CHE), Md. Simon Nice of Environmental Science and Technology (EST) Department.
The first three of them are students of 2018-19 academic year and the remaining seven are students of 2017-18 academic year. At the end of the investigation process, the disciplinary committee of the university took these decisions in accordance with the ‘Rules of Discipline for Students’. It was adopted at a meeting of the Board of Regents. Notice of their punishment will be officially announced very soon.
According to the report of the committee of inquiry raised by the Regent Board, on April 17, Md. Sabbir Alam, a second year student of Physics Department and a residential student at room number 320 of Shaheed Mashiur Rahman Hall was called by Sohail Rana of Mathematics Department, Md. Bariul Haque Mubin of Physics Department and Md. Al-Amin of Environmental Science Department. They tortured him physically. As a result, he lost consciousness. The investigation also revealed that 10 to 15 other students present in that room were also torturing him mentally. After Md. Sabbir Alam lost consciousness, an attempt was made to give him first aid and he was not taken to the hospital for one to one and a half hours. When his physical condition deteriorated, he was grabbed and taken down and admitted to the 250-bed hospital in Jessore with the help of an ambulance. Md. Sabbir Alam was given first aid and some physical examination at the hospital that night and the next morning (April 18, 2022) he was brought back without any doctor’s advice and threatened him not to make any complaint to the administration. The Board of Regents found the above mentioned students guilty of physical and mental abuse, intimidation and attempted concealment of evidence.
A committee of inquiry was also formed against a teacher of the Department of Nursing and Health Sciences of the University for allegedly covering up the incident of ragging at a meeting of the Regent Board.
The Treasurer of JUST Professor Md. Abdul Majid; Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Education (University) Md. Abu Yusuf Mia; Joint Secretary (Development-3) Syeda Nawara Jahan; Director General of the National Institute of Biotechnology in Savar Dr. Md. Salimullah; Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Atomic Energy Research Institute of Savar Dr. SM Asaduzzaman, Jessore Regional Agricultural Research Institute Chief Scientific Officer (Acting) Dr. Kawsar Uddin Ahmed; UGC Professor Dr. Sharif Enamul Kabir; Chief Executive Officer and Senior Consultant of Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute Dr. M. A. Rashid; Jessore Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Chairman Prof. Dr. Ahsan Habib; Professor of Microbiology at JUST Dr. Md. Iqbal Kabir Zahid; Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Dr. Syed Md. Ghalib; Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Systems Dr. Md. Mehedi Hasan; Government MM College Principal Professor Morzina Akhter; Secretary of the Regent Board and the Registrar of JUST Engineer Md. Ahsan Habib and others were also present at the meeting of the Board of Regents.