Inspector General of Police Noor Mohammad yesterday held a section of teachers and politicians responsible for the unrest in Dhaka University and other campuses in August this year.(New Age BD)

Emerging out of the Circuit House office of the probe committee headed by Justice Habibur Rahman Khan, the IGP said, "a section of teachers' role influenced the agitating students to turn furious. The teachers had provoked them instead of pacifying the situation."

The IGP went to the probe committee office in the afternoon along with Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Nayeem Ahmed to testify. With the deposition of the IGP and the DMP Commissioner, the probe committee has so far taken the eyewitness accounts of a total of 104 persons on the campus violence.

Talking to journalists, IGP Noor Mohammad said, "As the teachers had influenced, the violence spread to various campuses including BUET and Jagannath University in the city as well as across the country. The politicians took advantages of the situation."

"Instead of pacifying the situation, the teachers had placed different demands to the government", the IGP said.

In connection with the August violence, a total of 53 cases were lodged with seven thanas in the city. Of them, 15 cases were filed under the Emergency Power Rules (EPR), 36 under the CrPC, 1 under Speedy Trial Tribunal Act and 1 under the Explosives Act.

Police have so far submitted charge sheets of 13 cases and final reports of 38 other cases on September 8 to the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court. Two cases under EPR were under investigation.

In the charge sheets, at least 36 persons, including four DU teachers and 14 students, were accused for their involvement in the three days of violence.

As the unrest kept spreading like wildfire -- from campus to campus -- the caretaker government had clamped curfew and shut down all universities and colleges in six divisional headquarters, including Dhaka.

Replying to a question regarding the August-21 grenade attack on the rally of Sheikh Hasina's at Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004, the IGP said, "The investigation is about to complete and the charge sheet would be submitted soon."

"At first, there were some problems, but we have overcome them", IGP Noor Mohammad said.

In the grenade attack, several leaders and activists were killed, while a number of others were injured seriously.

Talking to journalists he also said at least 600 to 700 miscreants were hiding in India and he would request the Indian government to send them back to Bangladesh.