Mehdi Hassan, Arafat Rayhan and Amnon Ahmed claimed that they were not present at the scene during the clashes, while Anik and Naim Arafat could not be reached by phone.
Mohammed Shamim said that when a member of his subgroup was hacked by a Sixty-Nine member, he took a knife in his hands but did not attack anyone.
Regarding the clashes, Proctor Nurul Azim Sikdar told Prothom Alo that an investigation team has already started working on the issue and they are scheduled to hold a meeting on Sunday to decide the next course of action. The meeting will be attended by officials from various university administrations, law enforcement personnel and intelligence agencies.
CU BCL has long been divided into two factions, one with Education Minister Mohibul Hasan and the other with former Chattogram City Corporation mayor AJM Nasir Uddin. These factions are further divided into 11 subgroups, of which Vijay and CFC are aligned with Mohibul Hasan, while the remaining nine factions are followers of AJM Nasir Uddin.
