Clash at campus: Court grants bail to three SBBU lecturers

HYDERABAD:

The three lecturers of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (SBBU), who were arrested for allegedly fomenting violence at the campus on June 9, have been released on bail.

The Shaheed Benazirabad district second additional district and session judge, Ahmed Luqman Memon, granted the bail on Friday.

Dalail Jatoi, Ilyas Bhutto and Humeed Akhtar Sajrani were detained during a protest at the campus which was organised to condemn the removal of registrar Kehar Khoso. The teachers and students gathered while a syndicate meeting was under way, chaired by MNA Azra Fazal Pechuho. Three teachers and 12 students were injured in the clashes with the police and the student wing of the Pakistan Peoples Party.

The university’s security officer, Allah Dino Zardari, nominated 13 employees and 50 unknown students in an FIR registered at A-Section police station.

The protests broke out when the new vice chancellor Arshad Saleem Arain assumed charge in late February.

Anwar Mangrio, the sacked lecturer who led the teachers’ association, said that their struggle against Arain and the MNA Pechuho will continue. The teachers and the recently dismissed registrar Khoso have accused the VC of lacking requisite qualification for the post and embezzlement.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 16^th, 2012.