Ten students of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), including a former general secretary of the Kuet Chhatra League, have been expelled for torturing a fellow student in 2022.
The decision was taken at a meeting of KUET's Student Discipline Committee on January 27, KUET's Student Welfare Director Professor Mohammad Sultan Mahmud revealed on Monday (February 3).
The university authorities also cancelled the BSc Engineering certificates of four of them.
The students who have been expelled are Sadman Nahian Sejan (former General Secretary, KUET Chhatra League, Computer Science and Engineering); Md Raihan Ahmed (Leather Engineering), Sad Ahmed Turjo (Leather Engineering), Sazedul Kabir (Civil Engineering), Adnan Rafi (Leather Engineering), Rizwan Islam Rizvi (Leather Engineering), Fuaduzzaman Fahim (Textile Engineering), Md Mehedi Hasan Mithu (former General Secretary, Rashid Hall Chhatra League, Textile Engineering); Md Safat Morshed (Textile Engineering) Md Fakhrul Islam Faris (former President, Rashid Hall Chhatra League, BECM).
Among them, the BSc in Engineering certificates of Raihan, Saad, Sajedul and Rafi have been cancelled.
Additionally, Mostak Ahmed Tushar (Leather Engineering) has been denied certificates for three years, while Subhendu Das and Fariar Jamil Nihal (both from Civil Engineering) also faced a three-year certificate ban. They too would never receive any certificates of appreciation.
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