At least nine students, including two Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) office- bearers, were injured during police lathicharge outside Delhi University Vice-Chancellor’s office on Friday. Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists and the DUSU members (DUSU) were protesting against the DU Administration and demanded to fulfil their eight-point agenda.
ABVP leaders claimed that over 4,000 students gathered outside the Arts faculty in the North Campus to raise their voice before the DU authorities. The students were demanding better hostel facilities, special buses, special chance provision and the opening of new colleges, among others. “Three office bearers of DUSU, including its president, vice-president and joint secretary and six other students were injured in a police lathicharge. They (police) used water cannon too,” claimed Rohit Chahal, national secratary of ABVP, which leads DUSU.
Police, however, denied resorting to a lathicharge. “There were around 700-800 students and they were marching to the Vice-Chancellor’s office. We had to use water cannon to disperse them,” a senior police official said, adding “There was no lathicharge and none of the students were detained.”