Jodhpur : Students demonstrated for their demands in the Registrar’s Office located in the central office of Jai Narayan Vyas University. Seeing the students getting aggressive, someone removed the electric fuse in the Registrar’s Office and kept it aside. After this, for some time, the students kept arguing with the acting Registrar Dashrath Solanki in the light of mobile torch. As soon as Solanki got up from his chair and went inside the room, the policemen started hitting with sticks. There were 20 to 25 students in the Registrar’s Office room at that time. There was a stampede there due to the lathi charge by the policemen and the students started running after colliding with each other. Some got injured in this. After this, the police came out and beat them with sticks in the verandah. Some protesting students were taken away in the police jeep.
The Vice Chancellor was not there so he entered the Registrar’s office
The students, under the leadership of former officer of the university’s evening study institute and student leader Chhail Singh Rathore, demonstrated for their demands at the university’s central office in Jodhpur at 1 pm on Friday. The vice chancellor was not present in the university at that time. Acting registrar was Dashrath Solanki. In such a situation, the students went to the registrar’s office and placed their demands, but when the students demanded concrete assurances, the police were called in the registrar’s office.
Students allege- Police switched off the lights
Student leader Chail Singh Rathore alleged that because the students were not coming out of the Registrar’s office, the police themselves removed the fuse. When the students came out after the police lathi charge, the lights of the Vice Chancellor’s office were on. Even the security guard had a fan running. Many students including Kuldeep Singh, Komal Kanwar, Laxmi Kanwar took part in the protest. The students were protesting for demands like conducting student union elections, cleanliness in the university campus, arrangements for cold water, hygiene arrangements, holding classes, reducing fees etc.
