Shimla: Police have taken 57 students under preventive detention which include 7 girls as tension continues to vitiate peace at Himachal Pradesh University with one student having sustained a fracture in a late evening clash on Wednesday that had to be operated upon.
To contain the clashes taking place between groups of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and Students Federation of India (SFI) students’ police is searching hostels to ensure that no unauthorized persons were staying there illegally.
Superintendent police RM Sharma said that 42 students belonging to SFI, which include 7 girls and 15 from AVBP had been taken into preventive detention and would be produced before an executive magistrate on Friday.
In the morning a section of students manhandled a professor. Vice-chancellor SK Gupta said, “a case in the matter has been registered and we are indentifying the students involved for initiating their expulsion from the university.”
After the two groups clashed in the hostels at 2.30 a.m on Wednesday, despite the presence of heavy police blows were again exchanged in the university library on Wednesday evening in which 5 students were injured.Read Full Story
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