--agitated students condemn police inaction
BHUBANESWAR: The students injured
on July 13 group-clash inside the Utkal University campus have demanded
resignation of the Vice-Chancellor of the university and condemned the police’s
lackadaisical attitude for not arresting the culprits who attacked them on last
Friday. The injured students are still continuing their dharna in front of the
Raj Bhavan from the day after the Vani Vihar incident.
A team of professors from Utkal
University on Friday visited the
dharna place and advised the students to attend classes and examinations by calling
off the hunger strike, but the students reiterated their demands and said they
will sit on dharna till their demands are fulfilled. Later the professors assured
them that they will take it to PG Council meeting for a peaceful solution.
The students at a Press meet here
on the afternoon demanded Vice-Chancellor’s resignation, probe into VC’s
involvement, compensation and protection to the injured students, arrest the
culprits immediately and expel those students against whom they had lodged FIR.
“Eight days passed, but the
culprits who had attacked us in front of the police yet to book under law. Why the
police are not taking action against the culprits, questioned an injured
student Sangram Keshari Patro. Criminalization of politics and introducing it
to the educational institutions is very unfortunate, Patro added.
According to the Utkal University
Students’ Union president Tanmay Swain, the campus is peaceful. The
examinations were running peaceful.
It may be noted that on July 13,
five students were injured in a group-clash between two student groups at the Utkal
University campus here. The fall
out originated from an argument regarding set up of a help desk in the campus.
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