Jahangirnagar University authorities have suspended a student from the Department of Geography and Environment over a social media post deemed derogatory to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and formed an investigation committee to look into the matter. The suspension of Tawfiq Islam Nabil, a student of the 50th batch from the Academic Year 2020–21, was announced in a notice posted on the university’s official Facebook page on Monday. Alongside the suspension, the university formed a probe committee led by Prof Shamsul Alam, acting dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, under the same section of the disciplinary ordinance. On Saturday, a screenshot of a Facebook comment allegedly made by Nabil began circulating widely on the platform. Later that night, angry students took out a protest march demanding disciplinary action against Nabil.
