The Commissionerate Police on Wednesday arrested three more students of the Ekamra College here in connection with Students’ Union poll violence in the college premises on Tuesday.
With the arrest of Purnendu Pujapanda, Bidyadhar Samantray and Radhamohan Nayak on Wednesday, the total number of arrested students rose to six. Earlier on Tuesday, three students Abhinash Mohapatra, Rakesh Parida and Kaushik Patra were nabbed by the police. All the arrested persons were Plus III students of the college and forwarded to court.
Airfield police station Inspector-in-Charge Rashmi Ranjan Sahu said the students were arrested on the charges of rioting, ransacking college campus, vandalism and attacking the police.
The police and college authorities have filed two separate cases against the students. Meanwhile, the police issued warrants against 25 more students. Notably, angry over the rejection of two presidential candidates’ nomination papers, a group of students destroyed college properties worth Rs 50 lakh and attacked the police forces, forcing the college authorities to close the college sine die.