DU ousts 128 students over July uprising violence

Dhaka University authorities on Monday temporarily expelled 128 students, tied to the banned Chhatra League, for their role in attacks during the July mass uprising. 

The move, greenlit at a syndicate meeting, lands as a reckoning for a campus still scarred by last summer’s chaos.  

The expulsions stem from a fact-finding committee’s probe, handed to Vice-Chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan last Thursday by convener Kazi Mahfuzul Islam, an associate law professor. 

The report names over 100 students linked to assaults on protesters between July 15 and August 5—a violent stretch that rocked the student-led movement. 

Proctor Saifuddin Ahmed confirmed the tally: “128 are out, for now.”  

This isn’t the final word. A new investigation committee, led by syndicate member Professor Tazmeri SA Islam, will dig deeper. “Their fate hinges on that report,” Ahmed said, signalling a process both swift and deliberate. The Chhatra League ties—once a political juggernaut, now outlawed—cast a long shadow over the accused, amplifying the stakes.