According to eyewitnesses, candidates denied gazette notification in the 45th BCS began their sit-in at the Raju Sculpture on Wednesday afternoon (21 October).
TBS Report
23 October, 2026, 01:20 pm
Last modified: 23 October, 2026, 01:43 pm
Police have detained four people from a sit-in by candidates denied gazette notification in the 45th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination in front of the Raju Memorial Sculpture at Dhaka University over alleged links to the activities-banned Chhatra League.
They were detained from the protest site around midnight yesterday (22 October).
According to eyewitnesses, candidates denied gazette notification in the 45th BCS began their sit-in at the Raju Sculpture on Wednesday afternoon (21 October).
After receiving information that some of the protesters were activists of Chhatra League, several leaders and activists of DU Chhatra Dal, including Senior Joint General Secretary Nasir Uddin Shawon, went to the site last night (22 October) and detained four people.
They were later turned over to police in the presence of the Dhaka University proctorial team.
The detainees are Ferdous Khan, former assistant secretary of the university's Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall unit of Chhatra League; Ekram Gazi Hridoy, former vice-president of the Amar Ekushey Hall unit of Chhatra League; Md Habibul Islam, deputy general secretary of the Ashraful Haque Hall unit of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) Chhatra League; and Moniruzzaman Monir, education and study circle secretary of the same hall unit.
Nasir Uddin Shawon, senior joint general secretary of DU Chhatra Dal, said they had found four activists of Chhatra League at the sit-in.
"They held different posts in the organisation. Police later arrived and took them away," he said.