The Islamic University in Kushtia today expelled a student, a former Chhatra League activist, for vandalising the medical centre, and two others for torturing a fresher of human resource management department of the university.

The university administration, however, suspended three other students for one year for their involvement in torturing the fresher, the practice of ragging that universities have been trying to clamp down on across the country.

The decision was made at a meeting of the university's disciplinary committee held at IU administration building with Vice-Chancellor Professor Shaikh Abdus Salam in the chair this morning.

The expelled students are -- Rezwan Siddiqi Kabbo, a student of law department under 2018-19 academic session and also a former activist of IU BCL unit and Hisham Nazir Shuvo of human resource management department under 2021-22 academic session and Mizanur Rahman Emon of the same department under the same session of the university.

The students suspended for one year are -- Shahriar Pulok, Sheikh Salauddin Shakib, and Sadman Shakib Akib, of the human resource management department.

The IU VC issued the expulsion order against Kabbo, Shuvo, and Emon for violating rules and regulations of the university, proctor Prof M Shahadat Hossain Azad said.

Earlier, Kabbo and two of his cohorts vandalised equipment in Islamic University's medical centre on the campus in Kushtia on July 11 over a trivial matter.

On September 3, a group of students, including Shuvo, Emon, Pulok, Shakib and Akib brought a fresher from the same department to Birshreshtha Hamidur Rahman Auditorium area and bullied him. They tortured him again on September 3.

The victim filed the complaint with proctor M Shahadat Hossain Azad, student adviser professor Shelina Nasrin, and acting registrar HM Ali Hasan in this connection seeking punishment of the accused involved in torturing him on September 10.

The university authorities formed a five-member probe body led by IU Business Administration Faculty Dean Prof M Shaiful Islam to look into the matter.