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The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology student accused in a case of breaching the Emergency Powers Rules on the campus was on Monday sent in jail custody after his surrender in a Sylhet court.

Mostafizur Rahman Raju, a master's student of political studies and public administration, was the only one named on the charge sheet in the case filed in connection with the teacher and student protests on the SUST campus following the student protests at Dhaka University.

Mostafizur, also the organising secretary of the university unit Chhatra League, surrendered in the court of a judicial magistrate at noon on Monday.

The magistrate, Matiyar Rahman, ordered him to be sent to jail. The student had been in hiding for more than three months after the filing of the case, court sources said. Students at the university on the day attended classes and took examinations wearing black badges to push for an immediate withdrawal of the cases filed against Mostafizur and the teachers and students of Dhaka and Rajshahi universities.

They also planned to form a human chain in front of the library on the campus on Tuesday to push for their demands. Teachers and students on August 21 brought out a silence procession wearing black badges on the campus in protest at police atrocities on the Dhaka University campus.

The Kotwali police filed a case on September 5 in connection with the demonstration against Mostafizur and 30 more unnamed students on charge of breaching the Emergency Powers Rules 13 days after the incident. The police filed the charge sheet with court against Mostafizur in the case.

The court was scheduled to hear the case on Monday, the sources said. The defence counsel, Misbah Uddin Siraj, said there was no ground for the case to be filed against Mostafizur. 'According to the Emergency Powers Rules, a case should be filed immediately after the occurrence,' he said, adding that this case was filed 13 days after the incident.

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