Law enforcement agencies detained 53 students on Wednesday afternoon who broke into the Secretariat demanding reevaluation of the recently published Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination results.
They were apprehended at around 3:45pm and taken to nearby police stations in two prison vans.
Over 500 protesters, some of whom failed the HSC examinations while other secured poor results, demonstrated near the main gate of building-6 of the Secretariat at around 3:00pm despite law enforcers' request to cease slogans and engage in peaceful discussions.
As the protesters refused to talk instead lay siege to the Secretariat, the army and the police dispersed them.
On October 20, the student protesters broke into the Dhaka Education Board with the same demand, resulting in clashes with board officials and destruction of various rooms.
On that day, they confined the Chairman and officials of the board for eight hours.
Notably, due to violence amid the Quota Reform Movement, examinations scheduled for July 18, 21, 23, 25, 28, and August 1 and 4 were postponed.
On September 11, the government published a revised schedule to hold the suspended examinations.
Following this, students demanded that the remaining exams not be held and that results be published through subject mapping.
The authorities later decided not to conduct the remaining exams and implemented subject mapping for the suspended exams.
