JU suspends 12 History students over ragging allegations

Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have temporarily suspended 12 students of the History Department over allegations of ragging several first-year students of the same department.

The suspended students belong to the 2024-25 academic session (54th batch), while the victims are from the 2025-26 academic session (55th batch).

The university annou5nced the suspension in an office order signed by Acting Registrar Dr ABM Azizur Rahman at around 11:30pm on Saturday.

According to the order, a group of 54th-batch students allegedly took several 55th-batch students to the Jahangirnagar University School and College field between 11pm on July 3 and 2am the following day, where they subjected them to ragging.

The allegations state that the accused verbally abused the victims in obscene language, forced them to hold their ears and harassed them in the name of “teaching manners.”

The office order said the alleged actions violated Section 5(6) of the university’s ‘Student Discipline Ordinance-2018’, which prohibits teasing, ragging and abusive behaviour anywhere on campus, including halls and academic departments.

Following the allegations, the university suspended the 12 accused students under Section 4(1)(b) of the ordinance.

The suspended students are including- Nasim Uddin Majumdar, Md Mahfuzur Rahman Onto, Abdullah Mahdi, Shubhashish Roy Pranto, Md Abu Abtahi Anik, Md Raihan Khan, Md Naimul Hasan, Md Isfak Hadi, Naim Ahmed Sazib, Kartik Chandra Roy, Kazi Shah Jamshed Alam Nabil and Saifullah Mansur Anan, reports UNB.