Shawdesh Desk:

Three audio conversations between ruling Awami League-backed student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League’s Islamic University unit president Faisal Siddike Arafat and a person went viral on social media Facebook from Wednesday night to Friday night.

A general diary was lodged with Islamic University police station in this connection on Friday.

Islamic University police station officer-in-charge Annur Jayed Biplob told New Age that IU BCL unit vice-president Munshi Kamrul Hasan Anik filed the case with the police station at about 6:00pm.

Police were looking into the matter, the OC said.

According to the audio conversation shared from a Facebook account named Shanjida Akter Tania on Wednesday night, Arafat was heard saying to Milon, who got appointment as a driver on the campus on September 3, to pay him the money. Milon was supposed to pay him the money as per their agreement but he did not pay him in time.

He, at one point, told Milon that he had a relative in Magura district who wanted to give him Tk 25 lakh if he appointed him at IU transport office.

In the audio conversation shared from Islamic University Campus page on Thursday, Arafat was heard pressuring a person over phone to pay him Tk 20 lakh.

In the audio conversation shared from Islamic University Campus page on Friday night, an altercation between Arafat and IU BCL unit general secretary Nasim Ahmed Joy took place over phone where they were heard talking to each other about the division of money.

Many IU BCL unit activists demanded that Arafat should be punished by the central BCL body if he had any kind of involvement in such recruitment anomaly.

Contacted, IU BCL unit president Faisal Siddike Arafat said that the audio conversations leaked on social media were edited and he had no involvement in such incidents.

IU BCL unit general secretary Nasim Ahmed Joy said that a group vested quarter had tried to tarnish their political career by editing the audio clips.

Earlier, a total of 14 audio clips containing conversations between Islamic University vice-chancellor Professor Shaikh Abdus Salam and different people went viral on social media from February 16 to June 13 this year.

IU acting registrar HM Ali Hasan filed a general diary with the Islamic University police station after an audio clip containing conversation between the VC and a jobseeker of IU’s mass communication and journalism department had gone viral on February 17.

On March 14, an audio clip of a conversation between the university’s acting registrar HM Ali Hasan and a contractor went viral on social media.

The university authorities cannot take action against any unscrupulous people on the campus as the vice-chancellor himself is accused of recruitment anomaly, many ruling Awami League alliance senior teachers said.