The meeting was held at the Dosto building office of the student organisation in the city. SCF President Mehedi Hasan Tamal presided over the meeting.

Meanwhile, the 5th Assistant Judge Court, Chittagong (Hathazari) served a show cause notice on the university authorities seeking a reply as to why the appointments of three newly-appointed teachers of Economics Department will not be declared 'illegal'.

The court issued the notice on Thursday afternoon following a prayer submitted by the Dean of Social Science Faculty and senior teacher of Economics Department Dr Moinul Islam and departmental head Professor M Nasiruddin.

However, Pro-VC Professor M Shamsuddin told this correspondent that the university authorities would pray seeking more time from the court as the VC is now staying abroad.

The university authorities appointed four teachers in Economics Department defying the planning committee's recommendation. As per the recommendation, the university authorities published advertisements on different dailies seeking applications for the posts three months back.

Accordingly, eight candidates applied. The selection board scrutinised the applications and made a merit based list.

Having all first classes, Selim Ullah topped the list of applicants. He was duly appointed while recruitment of three others was made ignoring the planning committee recommendation which suggested for recruiting a teacher. Recruitment of the three teachers having involvement with Jamaat-Shibir politics violated the merit-based list of applicants where they were placed 6th, 7th and 8th in the serial. The CU Syndicate finalised the appointments on June 27.

On contact, Prof Dr Moinul Islam told The Daily Star that the appointments were made showing shortage of teachers.

However, Vice Chancellor Prof AJM Nuruddin Chowdhury could not be contacted as he is in Japan on a weeklong tour.