Dhaka, Jan 28, Redtimesbd.com
Syeduzzaman Pasha, the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal carde who brandished firearms during JCD`s factional clash at Dhaka University earlier this month, was arrested by police Thursday.

He has been held in connection with the bloody clash on January 18 at DU campus that left 28 people, including JCD President Sultan Salauddin Tuku seriously injured.

When contacted Thursday afternoon, Dhaka Metropolitan Police`s Detective Branch Assistant Commissioner Monirul Islam confirmed that they arrested Pasha, an expelled activist of JCD`s Dhaka College unit.

On January 18, several national dailies, including the Redtimesbd.com, published a series of pictures of the bloody clash including that of Pasha carrying a pistol shooting at members of a rival JCD group.

The next day, in a follow-up story, the Redtimesbd.com reported that Syeduzzaman Pasha, who hailed from Narail district, belonged to a `rebel` group of the JCD`s Dhaka College unit.

The Redtimesbd.com report also said that Pasha was an armed cadre of JCD`s Dhaka College unit`s expelled secretary general Anwarul Kabir Milon. He resided in 212 number room of the North Hostel of Dhaka College.

He was caught in the action in the camera of Redtimesbd.com on January 18.

The photo showed Pasha shouting at a rival group member, aiming a loaded pistol at him, telling the unknown JCD activist not to proceed further. The caption read: ``Don`t proceed further, otherwise I will kill you,`` Pasha was quoted as saying during the gunfight in which 10-12 more armed cadres were shooting with him at rivals.

It was gathered that Pasha came to DU campus in early January 18. At night, along with 7-8 armed JCD activists, he took shelter at the DU Central Mosque. They carried several firearms and some explosives with them.

They came out of the mosque immediately after Fazr prayers, took position at the main gate at around 6.20am. When their rivals showed up in the morning they started firing at them.

When police intervened, they also engaged themselves in a clash with the law-enforcers. When police chased them, trying to disperse the feuding JCD factions, Pasha and his cohorts fled the scene.

Some armed cadres of the group received injuries. When fleeing the spot, Pasha and his co-cadres carried the injured.

The three-partite clash left, 28 people, including the JCD chief, a DU proctor and four policemen seriously injured.

The fighting resulted from a feud over places in the new central committee of JCD, the student wing of the opposition BNP.

Chhatra Dal cadres fired some 100 rounds of bullet and exploded 20 hand-made bombs in a sharp reminder of the violence-plagued days of DU.

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