ALLAHABAD: Residents of Allahabad University’s Tarachand Hostel damaged half-adozen vehicles and pelted stones at shops in front of Prayag Station, early Sunday morning after a student was injured during a clash with a tea vendor.AU hostellers often visit a tea shop situated near the Prayag railway station in the night. On Saturday night at 2.30am, a student Anurag and his friend reached the shop of Ghamandi Singh and ordered tea and cigarettes.The vendor was reportedly closing the shop and refused to sell them tea and cigarettes but Anurag insisted which led to an altercation between the two. Soon, other shopkeepers also joined Ghamandi Singh even as the students continued to demand that the shop be opened. Later, one of the vendors attacked Anurag, who was injured on his head.Police had to resort to lathicharge to disperse the mob of hostellers pelting stones at the shopkeepers.Police have nabbed the shopkeeper Ghamandi Singh while the injured hosteller Anurag has been admitted to Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital. Around two hours after the incident, when the hostellers came to know about the incident, scores of them reached the tea vendor’s stand and started searching for the vendor. Not able to find the vendor, the students started pelting stones at other shops.Later, they attacked the two-wheelers and four wheelers parked in front of the railway station and damaged over half-a-dozen vehicles.Circle officer Alok Mishra said, “Singh has been arrested for attacking the student while an FIR has also been lodged against unidentified students for damaging the property.”

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