6 hurt in student-cop clash in Imphal

  • | Sunday | 8th July, 2018

Charging MU vice-chancellor Adya Prashad Pandey with financial and administrative irregularities, Musu has shut down the university since June 6. When they tried to enter the CM's office secretariat, police prevented them resulting in a confrontation. Police had to weild batons in which the six students were injured. Owing to the closure of the Centre-run university, the examination process in all colleges of the state affiliated to the univesity has come to a halt.The chief minister said he had met representatives of the two student bodies earlier to resolve the matter. IMPHAL: College students clashed with police here on Saturday when they tried to storm into chief minister N Biren Singh's office in pursuit of their demand to declare results of semester exams, leaving six of them injured.The results have been witheld owing to a shutdown in the Manipur University (MU).Earlier in the morning, a large number of degree course students had assembled near the CM's office secretariat to press for their demand.

IMPHAL: College students clashed with police here on Saturday when they tried to storm into chief minister N Biren Singh's office in pursuit of their demand to declare results of semester exams, leaving six of them injured.The results have been witheld owing to a shutdown in the Manipur University (MU).Earlier in the morning, a large number of degree course students had assembled near the CM's office secretariat to press for their demand. When they tried to enter the CM's office secretariat, police prevented them resulting in a confrontation. Police had to weild batons in which the six students were injured. One of them have been rushed RIMS hospital.Leaders of the joint college students' forum stongly condemned the police action on students who, he said, were coming peacefully to submit a memorandum to the CM seeking his intervention to resolve the MU crisis as result of which results of their semester examinations have not been declared. They also supported the demand for removal of the MU vice-chancellor raised by Manipur University Students' Union' (Musu) and MU Teachers' Association.The Manipur Teachers' Association has demanded a magisterial probe into the police action against the students.The Manipur University Teachers' Association, at a meeting held recently, had decided to urge Prime Minister Narendra Modi , HRD minister (chief rector) and chief minister N Biren Singh to set up a committee to probe into the charges levelled against the VC.Supporting Musu stir, six deans and 30 department heads of MU have already resigned from their posts. Charging MU vice-chancellor Adya Prashad Pandey with financial and administrative irregularities, Musu has shut down the university since June 6. Owing to the closure of the Centre-run university, the examination process in all colleges of the state affiliated to the univesity has come to a halt.The chief minister said he had met representatives of the two student bodies earlier to resolve the matter.

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