Chandigarh
Vice-President Hamid Ansari who is the Chancellor of Panjab University today sought a report over clash between students and police that took place yesterday. Vice-Chancellor Arun Kumar Grover blamed a “handful of people for engineering violence”.
Meanwhile the police, who arrested six more students today, said initially sedition charge was included in the FIR on the basis of the complaint by varsity authorities but later removed.
At the university, where an uneasy calm prevailed, authorities said the police may have “misinterpreted” their complaint.
“Today we have detained six more students in connection with yesterday’s protest,” UT Chandigarh SP Eish Singhal said here.
Asked whether police had booked students for sedition yesterday, the SP said initially, sedition charge was added in the FIR on the basis of complaint of PU authorities, but later it was dropped.
Police said they had booked the students for various charges, including rioting and damage to the public property.
PU Chief Security Officer Ashwani Kaul said the complaint might have been “misinterpreted” by police.
“We never meant that the students raised slogans against the state. When we came to know that sedition charge was being added, we approached police and clarified that students raised slogans against UGC, MHRD and PU,” said Kaul.