Five leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League of Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University unit were injured when employees of a restaurant beat them up for not paying bills for meals.
Among them, critically injured Sarwar Mamun, general secretary of the university BCL unit, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Local people and police said five leaders of BCL had gone to the restaurant named Anurag, located on Mirpur road, at around 2:30pm.
They took meals at the hotel and denied to pay the bills for the meals, witnesses said.
As the employees demanded the bill, the BCL men started beating them. Later, employees of the restaurant beat the BCL men up with lethal weapons, leaving the five injured.
Later, about a hundred of BCL activists rushed to the restaurant and vandalized the shop and looted money from there, local people alleged.
Witnesses alleged that police did not resist the BCL men from vandalizing the restaurant though they were present there.
The university unit of BCL president Ahmadul Bashar told reporters that the restaurant staff had beaten up their leaders after a scuffle over bill payment.
No case however was filed in this connection.
Source : New Age
