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The decision to form the court was made at a union meeting on Thursday, the university’s vice chancellor (administration), Professor Muhammad Samad, told bdnews24.com.
Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law and member of the union, Professor. A court has been set up summoning Rahmat Ullah.
The court will determine the punishment for theft in a joint study by Samia Rahman, associate professor in the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, and Syed Mahfuzul Haque Marjan, professor in the Department of Criminology.
Professor Samad said: “The other two members of this court will be a representative of the University Senate and a representative on behalf of the accused.
“The vice chancellor will fix the names of the two members and will set the time limit for the court soon,” he said. This can last up to a maximum of eight weeks. “
The other court was summoned by union member and lawyer AFM Mezbah Uddin.
The court will determine the punishment for theft in a study by Omar Farooq, an assistant professor in the Department of Islamic History and Culture.
Professor Samad said: “The title of Assistant Professor Omar Farooq from the Department of History and Culture of Islam was canceled from a union meeting in 2016 on charges of plagiarism. But he received no academic punishment. His sentence will be decided in this court ”.
In December 2016, an eight-page research article titled ‘A New Dimension of Colonialism and Pop Culture: A Case Study of Cultural Imperialism’, co-authored by Samia Rahman and Mahfuzul Haque Marjan, was published in a university journal called ‘Social Science Review’.
Samia Rahman and Syed Mahfuzul Haque Marjan
However, it was alleged that it was a fake five-page copy of an article entitled “The Subject and Power” by French philosopher Michel Foucault, published in the 1982 University of Chicago Critical Inquiry magazine.
In September 2016, the University of Chicago Press reported the theft to Dhaka University authorities through a written complaint.
Not only Michelle Foucault, but Samia and Marjan were also accused of copying page after page of the intellectual Edward Sayed’s book “Culture and Imperialism.”
In light of this, on September 27, 2016, the University Union formed a research committee headed by the then Vice Chancellor (Education) of Dhaka University, Professor Nasrin Ahmed. The committee presented its report last year after a lengthy investigation.
Following the report, the union decided on September 9 to form a court to recommend punishment for their academic crimes. So now the structure is.
Professor Samad said that if someone is not satisfied with the court’s verdict, they can go to court.
The development fee is half a lotus
The union has decided to reduce the development rate of all Dhaka University students by 50 percent in the current academic year considering the economic situation of students due to the coronavirus epidemic.
Professor ASM Maksud Kamal, Vice Chancellor of the University (Education), told bdnews24.com: “Students have been demanding a reduction in development fees from us for a long time. In response to their demand, it has been decided to reduce the development fee for the 2019-2020 academic year by 50 percent ”.
The union has reduced the upcoming winter school leave to 6 days instead of 16 days to make up for the loss of college education.
Additionally, summer vacation has been taken 20 days instead of 40 days, according to the university’s public relations department.
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