CHATTOGRAM, Dec 12: The Chattogram University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) administration has suspended 11 students following allegations of ragging brought against them.
The 'Students Discipline Committee' imposed a 6-month suspension on each of them at its 278th meeting on Wednesday.
The suspended students are Ifthekhar Ahmed Siam, Faisal Ahmed Bhuiyan, Dipayan Majumdar Sujon, Mohammad Tahsin Uddin Samin, Muminur Rahman Shrestha, Bahauddin Zakabia, Abhik Pal, Swarup Chandra Modak, Dibakar Chandra Sinha Kabya, Md Sohanur Rahman Sohan and Farhan Haque. All of them are enrolled in the Department of Civil Engineering.
The suspended students were accused of ragging fellow students, CUET sources said.
The office order issued by the Directorate of Student Welfare in CUET said the accused took some students of batch No. 23 out of the campus on November 5 last and harassed them from 10:30pm to 12:30am.
Following the incident, the management issued a show-cause notice to the accused students and constituted a probe committee to look into the matter.
The students failed to provide a satisfactory reply to the notice, said the CUET authorities. According to the report of the committee, the accused students were barred from academic activities for the next six months.
However, the suspended students can appeal against the suspension in 15 days, the order said.
