"We are preparing documents to go to court to challenge appointment of around 54 teachers violating rules", said CUTA General Secretary Prof Dr Gazi Saleh Uddin at a press conference here on Monday.

He claimed that the CU authorities appointed 110 teachers in different departments in the last two years. Of them, 54 were appointed without advertisement in newspaper. This is violation of Section 11 (4) of the CU Act, he said in a written statement read out at the press conference.

Among others, CUTA President Prof Dr. Nurul Anwar, Vice- president Towhid Hossain Chowdhury, Joint Secretary Abdul Haq, Dean of Social Science Prof Dr. Moinul Islam, former general secretary of CUTA Helal Uddin Nizami, Dr. Gholam Kibria Bhuiyan and Delwar Hossain Arif were present.

The CUTA leaders said they will launch a tougher agitation including indefinite strike to stop such appointments.

The CU is plagued with nepotism and political appointments since the present government took over in 2002, they alleged.

The Vice Chancellor is trying to promote a Jamaat-e-Islami backed teacher at Geography department by violating rules.

We will not tolerate if an associate professor having only two years' experience is promoted to the rank of professor, they said.

They also demanded immediate election of VC Panel through Senate.

The CUTA leaders also informed that the a court in Chittagong on August 31 imposed an injunction on appointment of three lecturers in Economics department as the university authorities failed to give reply before the court by the scheduled time.