BHU: 3 injured in clashes between 2 groups of students
At least three Banaras Hindu University students were injured after two groups from Birla and Lal Bahadur Shastri hostel clashed against each other during which stones and petrol bombs were also hurled. The incident was the fallout of a recent attack on a BA second-year student, Ashutosh Maurya, who lives in Shastri hostel, by a group of students from the Birla hostel, police said.
Many vehicles were damaged
The clashes occurred shortly after midnight today. But after around four hours, the forces deployed in the campus were withdrawn after finding that the situation has improved. During clashes, the students damaged vehicles and public property near their hostels in the university campus, police said. The clashes were stopped and the situation was brought under control around 4 am, police said.
Vice Chancellor met injured students
Vice Chancellor Rakesh Bhatnagar met the injured students at the hospital and also held talks with residents of both hostels- Birla and Lal Bahadur Shastri. District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra and SSP RK Bhardwaj also reached BHU, where they held meeting with the university administration.
