The police had picked up three students, including a job seeker, during a drive in a mess in Sylhet in the dead of night on Wednesday.
Learning about the incident, five teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) went to the police station and brought them back on Thursday afternoon.
In a separate incident, the police detained an HSC examinee when he, along with other students, attempted to gather in the city to protest in the afternoon.
Raid in mess
It was learned that the police conducted a drive in a mess at the Niharipara area near the university at night and took the three students to the Kotwali police station.
They are Monir Hossain, a former student of the SUST’s public administration department; Sohag, a student from the university's department of civil and environmental engineering (2017-18); and Anas Mia, a student of the zoology department of MC College.
The SUST teachers went to the police station around 12:30 pm on Thursday. After around two hours of negotiation with the officer-in-charge (OC), the students were set free on bond.
