Bangladesh News

A clash erupted between Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and Islami Chhatra Shibir on Chittagong Medical College (CMC) campus yesterday over recruiting freshmen to dormitories the student wings dominate. The incident left 12 people including two policemen injured.

Five rooms of the main male dormitory at Chatteshwari Road were also ransacked during the two and a half-hour-long clash.

The injured are JCD activists Matin, Limon, Rassel, Lijon, Sabuj, Rahat, Bulbul and Shibir activists Mahmud, Balayet, Mufti. Two unidentified policemen also received treatment at the CMC Hospital.

Sources said JCD and Shibir men around noon yesterday had an altercation in front of the CMC Principal’s Office over who would have the freshmen recruited to the dormitory they control. The altercation soon turned into a fierce clash.

The JCD men were trying to get the new students to the CMC male dormitory at Nasirabad while the Shibir men were trying to get them to the main dormitory of CMC at Chatteshwari Road, the sources added.

Police dispersed them and the clash spread out over the campus.

Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) leaders brought the situation under control around 2:30pm. JCD and Shibir, however, blamed each other for the clash.

Immediately after the battle CMC authorities in an academic council meeting decided to close the college until January 4.

They, however, withdrew their decision when BMA and National Doctors Forum (NDF) leaders in a meeting assured the CMC authorities of reaching an understanding between the feuding JCD and Shibir, sources said.