Sylhet: Students, right activists and common people on Thursday continued their demonstrations for the third consecutive day on Thursday demanding capital punishment of BCL leader Badrul for his gruesome attack on college girl Khadiza who is fighting for life at a hospital in Dhaka.

The protesting students of Sylhet Government Women’s College put up a barricade on Zindabazar-Chowhatta-Ambarkhana road and staged demonstrations at about 10:00am.

Later, they marched towards the office of the deputy commissioner of Sylhet.

They submitted a memorandum with a four-point demand to the Prime Minister through the deputy commissioner.

Their demands include exemplary punishment of the attacker, ensuring the trial of the attacker in a speedy tribunal and Prime Minister’s intervention in ensuring security for women.  

Former students of the college also staged demonstrations in front of Sylhet Central Shaheed Minar in the morning.

The students of Women’s College also organised a protest rally on the college campus.

Cross-section of people, including students, professionals, staged protest rally at city’s Chouhatta, Zindabazar, Tilagarh, on the same demand.

Meanwhile, the residents of Khadiza’s village Hausa in Sadar upazila staged demonstrations at the village, demanding punishment of the attacker.

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLUST) and the alumni association of Sylhet Government Women’s College also organised protest programmes.

Earlier on Monday, Khadiza, a 23-year-old daughter of Masuk Miah of Biswanath upazila in Sylhet, was hacked by Badrul on her way back home from college after she spurned his proposal for having an affair with him.

On hearing the victim’s screams, locals rescued Khadiza and caught Badrul Alam red-handed from the spot. They handed him over to police after beating him up.

Meanwhile, Badrul Alam made a confessional statement on the murder attempt under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPc) before the additional chief metropolitan magistrate's court of Sharaban Tahura in Sylhet.

Khadiza is now on life support at Square Hospitals Ltd in Dhaka.