Tofazzal was beaten up in 3 stages, 15-20 DU students participated
September 21, 20242 Mins Read
Jumbangla Desk: Six arrested students have given a statement in court admitting responsibility for beating Tofazzal Hossain (32) to death in the guest room of Fazlul Haque Muslim Hall of Dhaka University.

Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court Magistrate Saddam Hossain recorded the confessional statements of these six students from Friday afternoon. Later they were sent to jail around 9 pm.

Related sources say that 15 to 20 students took part in beating Tofazzal in three rounds. In the statement, those six students revealed the names of all those involved in Tofajjal's murder. The students said Tofazzal was beaten three times on suspicion of being a thief.

The six students who gave a statement in the court are - students of the physics department of DU Md. Jalal Mia, student of Soil, Water and Environment Department Suman Mia, student of Institute of Nutrition and Food Science. Three students named Mottakin Sakin and Al Hussain Sajjad, Ahsanullah and Wajibul Alam. All of them are resident students of Fazlul Haque Muslim Hall. Among them, Jalal Miah is the former deputy editor of science and technology affairs of the branch Chhatra League. During the quota reform movement, he resigned from the Chhatra League and was active in the program of anti-discrimination student movement. The political identity of the rest is not known.

In the confessional statement, all the six students said that on September 18, six students' mobile phones and wallets were stolen. Tofazzal entered the field through the gate of the hall around eight o'clock that night. Then some students arrested him on suspicion of being a thief and took him to the guest room of the hall. Later he was beaten with a stump in the name of interrogation. He was then taken to the canteen of the hall and served dinner. After eating, a group of students brought him to the guest room of the hall and beat him up. Around 12 midnight, some resident teachers of the hall took Tofazzal to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Later they came to know that Tofazzal died while undergoing treatment.

In this incident, Dhaka University administration filed a murder case at Shahbag police station. The six students were arrested from Fazlul Haque Muslim Hall with the help of the university administration on Thursday.