Bangladesh forms committee to probe violence in student protests

The Bangladeshi government has formed a judicial committee, led by a Supreme Court judge to investigate violence during student protests over the quota system in public sector jobs, which resulted in the deaths of 197 people.

Mohammad A Arafat, the junior minister of information and broadcasting vowed that whoever is responsible for the unrest since last week will be punished, Anadolu Agency quoted him as saying to international media correspondents in Dhaka, the country’s capital.