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Osmani Medical College BCL president held

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 09 June 2014

UNB, Sylhet :Police arrested Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College unit president of Bangladesh Chhatra League Soumen Dey from the city’s railway station area on Saturday night in connection with the killing of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist Towhidul Islam. Tipped off, a team of police launched a drive in the area around 10:15pm and arrested Soumen, said M Rahmat Ullah, additional deputy commissioner of Syhet Metropolitan Police.Soumen is one of the 20 accused in the Towhidul Islam murder case.Earlier, the authorities of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College on Saturday suspended its 10 students, also members of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), for their suspected link with the killing of Towhidul.The suspended students are BCL president of Osmani Medical College unit Soumen Dey, general secretary Saiful Hye, Rafi, Fahim, Jubari, Sharif, Antar, Hafiz, Pathan and Ashish.Meanwhile, the city unit of BNP which called a half-day hartal in the district for Sunday protesting the killing withdrew its shutdown programme following the suspension of the BCL men.JCD activist Towhidul Islam, a fourth year MBBS student of the medical college and an inmate of Abu Sina Hall, sustained injuries in an attack allegedly by activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in his dormitory room at the college on Wednesday evening.