Hurt by no response on his repeated requests for seeking meeting time, Ghanshyam Tripathi — a retired professor of DAV College tried to stage a sit-in before the residence of Uttarakhand Governor on Sunday but his attempt was foiled by the police. The retired Professor arrived outside the Governor House in the morning and tried to stage a dharna. Stung by his action, the cantonment police arrested him from the spot. He, however, was released after sometime. later, talking to The Pioneer, Tripathi said that on a complaint submitted by one of his junior Professor the Governor in his capacity as Chancellor of the State universities took a punitive action on him. He said that an RTI proved that the report of HNB Universities on which the action was taken on him was fake. Tripathi said that he has asked for time from Governor for more than 10 times but the Governor’s secretariat dined permission every time. He want to tell his problems to the Governor and is demanding an inquiry in the episode. Tripathi said that he merely adopted a Gandhian path and decided to for a dharna at the gate of Raj Bhawan which was dined by the police.