Students clash over seating capacity in hostel mess; force deployed on Khanna campus

Inspector Nachhatar Singh, SHO Khanna Sadar police station, said that it started off as a scuffle in the mess which soon turned into a full-blown clash.

The students from Bihar and Manipur share the same mess. While there are more than 1,100 students who eat food in the mess, there are only 400 chairs available to accommodate students at one time. Many have to wait for long to get a seat. In this case, the students waited for long and they started abusing and arguing with each other while standing in the queue. We have deployed security on the campus. Some students were injured in the clash but none has submitted a complaint for registering an FIR,” said the inspector.

Khanna SSP Dayama Harish Kumar Omprakash said that the college management has been directed to solve the issues of the students. “They have formed a committee to solve the issue and students from both sides have been included in it. Police force is deployed on the campus to avert any untoward incident,” said the SSP.