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Suspended assistant commissioner Urmi declared unwanted on SUST campus

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UNB :

Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet on Thursday declared Tapashee Tabassum Urmi, a suspended assistant commissioner of Lalmonirhat administration and also former student of the SUST, unwanted and banned for life on the campus.

They also demanded that the certificates of Urmi be cancelled, said a media release issued on Thursday.

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She came to the limelight for her controversial remarks regarding the interim government and Abu Sayed who was killed during the July movement.

According to the release, Urmi denied the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement through her various misleading posts on Facebook, including describing martyr Abu Sayed as a terrorist.

She also said the July-August genocide is a subject to investigation.

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