They also ransacked four to five rooms of Sher-e-Bangla hall, including that of the JCD leader and set valuables of those rooms on fire protesting beating of the teacher.

Students of the university had been agitating for removal of Salim Reza Madhu, deputy registrar and Jakidur Rahman, private secretary of vice chancellor for their alleged involvement in different immoral and corrupt activities on the campus.

JCD Vice President Ashraful Islam, a master's student, allegedly beat up a lecturer of the university at around 1:00am beside the academic building for his involvement in the movement. General students seeing the incident chased the JCD leader and beat him up severely.

He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition.

Later, agitating students ransacked the deputy registrar's and register's offices and damaged the furniture to protest the attack on their teacher.