Shimla:
Fresh students' violence broke out in Himachal Pradesh University campus in Shimla on Saturday after which about 60 activists of SFI and ABVP, including seven girls, were arrested.
It was free-for-all in the campus as SFI and ABVP activists moved in the campus carrying iron rods, sticks and stones and SFI members allegedly beat up a lecturer of Physical Education Sanjay Sharma.
Later, some SFI girls allegedly roughed up and slapped ABVP national secretary Manchali Thakur, excerbating the tension.
The police booked the students on the basis of complaints and counter complaints lodged by rival groups.
Of the arrested students, 42 were SFI activists including seven girls.
Shimla District police Chief R.M. Sharma said FIR under has been lodged against some of the students for allegedly beating a university teacher.
Police arrested 42 activists of SFI and 15 activists of ABVP for alleged involvement in violent clashes.
Sharma said rods, swords and khukris (sharp-edged knife) have been recovered from some of the students.
However campus president of SFI Rakesh Verma in a press statement today alleged two of the teachers of HPU, Dev Vrat, state president of ABVP and Sanjay Sharma, Vice President of state ABVP, were allegedly leading the students on Wednesday when mob had attacked some of the SFI activists.
On the other hand, ABVP has criticized the beating up of a university teacher allegedly by SFI activists.
State secretary of ABVP Navin Sharma said it highly "deplorable that SFI did not even spare a teacher."
He said it has "exposed the real face" of SFI.
Violence in the campus on the eve of elections to SCA in beginning of the academic session has become an unannounced part of university calendar.
This year, the trouble started when ABVP and SFI activists clashed in Tagore hostel on Tuesday night and sporadic incidents of clash between the two groups continued on Wednesday also.
The students groups took out rallies, raised slogans and teaching work was disrupted.
It was free-for-all in the campus as SFI and ABVP activists moved in the campus carrying iron rods, sticks and stones and SFI members allegedly beat up a lecturer of Physical Education Sanjay Sharma.
Later, some SFI girls allegedly roughed up and slapped ABVP national secretary Manchali Thakur, excerbating the tension.
The police booked the students on the basis of complaints and counter complaints lodged by rival groups.
Of the arrested students, 42 were SFI activists including seven girls.
Shimla District police Chief R.M. Sharma said FIR under has been lodged against some of the students for allegedly beating a university teacher.
Police arrested 42 activists of SFI and 15 activists of ABVP for alleged involvement in violent clashes.
Sharma said rods, swords and khukris (sharp-edged knife) have been recovered from some of the students.
However campus president of SFI Rakesh Verma in a press statement today alleged two of the teachers of HPU, Dev Vrat, state president of ABVP and Sanjay Sharma, Vice President of state ABVP, were allegedly leading the students on Wednesday when mob had attacked some of the SFI activists.
On the other hand, ABVP has criticized the beating up of a university teacher allegedly by SFI activists.
State secretary of ABVP Navin Sharma said it highly "deplorable that SFI did not even spare a teacher."
He said it has "exposed the real face" of SFI.
Violence in the campus on the eve of elections to SCA in beginning of the academic session has become an unannounced part of university calendar.
This year, the trouble started when ABVP and SFI activists clashed in Tagore hostel on Tuesday night and sporadic incidents of clash between the two groups continued on Wednesday also.
The students groups took out rallies, raised slogans and teaching work was disrupted.
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