Mob lynching: 4 DU students detained

Four students of the University of Dhaka were detained for interrogation in connection with lynching a youth named Tofazzal Hossain at the university's Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall. 

The detainees were identified as Jalal Amhed, former deputy secretary of science and technology affairs of Bangladesh Chhatra League's FH unit, also a student of the physics department, Al Hossain Sazzad of the geography department, Sumon Mia of soil, water and environment department, and Muttakin Sakin of Institute of Nutrition and Food Science (INFS).

Confirming the matter, DU Proctor Saifuddin Ahmed said they were detained and handed over to the Shahbagh Police Station by the proctorial team. 

Previously, DU authority filed a case in connection with Tofazzal Hossain's death on Wednesday night, Shabagh Police Station Officer in Charge Shahabuddin Shahin confirmed. 

The university proctorial team last night took Tofazzal Hossain to the police station after students assaulted him at the hall after being suspected of being a thief, said FH hall's provost Prof Shah Md Masum.  

He was later taken to a hospital, where the doctors declared him dead around 12:45am, he added.