DHAKA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court sentenced four university teachers to two years in jail on Tuesday for inciting violent student unrest in August which caused the army-backed government to impose curfews in major cities.

"Each of the four teachers of the Rajshahi University was convicted ... and sentenced to two years in prison," a court registrar said.

"The court found them guilty for inciting the unrest," he told reporters.

The university is located in Rajshahi city, some 300 km (187 miles) northwest of the capital Dhaka.

Each professor was asked to pay a fine of 100,000 taka ($1,457) or serve another month in jail.

Four teachers at Dhaka University, the country's biggest, are being tried on similar charges by another court, officials said.

The four have been detained for allegedly instigating student unrest in the capital.

A man was killed in Rajshahi and several hundred were injured there and in other cities as students fought battles with with police, in defiance of a state of emergency in force since January.

Authorities ordered an indefinite curfew in Dhaka and five other cities in late August following violence sparked by an alleged assault on some students by army troops during a football match on the Dhaka University campus.

The curfew was lifted after a few days later but all major universities in the six cities remained closed for up to two months.

(Reporting by Nizam Ahmed, writing by Anis Ahmed)

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