Students storm Allahabad University building over fee hike; 12 detained

Police on Saturday detained at least 12 students of Allahabad University after they stormed into a building and lay under their siege two professors as part of their agitation against fee hike police saidThe agitating students stormed the FRCFaculty Recruitment Cell building near the proctors office in the afternoon and allegedly gheraoed Professor ManmohanKrishna and Professor Ashish Saxena after which the university administration called the police police saidAbout 12 students were taken into custody for gherao of two professors of the university during their agitation Ram Mohan Roy Station House Officer SHO Colonelganj Police Station saidThe agitators were demanding withdrawal of the fee hike university Public Relations Officer Jaya Kapoor saidThe protesters also called the admission committee over phone and threatened that if the fee hike is not rolled back and the admission process continued then the admission committee will also be gheraoedAlso Read Mallikarjun Kharge resigns as Leader of Opposition in Rajya SabhaAt around 4 pm with the help of the police both the professors were rescued from these students the PRO saidAjay Yadav Samrat a student who has been on hunger strike against the fee hike however alleged that the students were called by the university administration for talks but they were made to sit in a room and handed over to the policeAkhil Yadav a former vicepresident of the students union said that on one hand the university administration opens the way for talks and on the other it starts the admission processHe said administration got the police to arrest the students when they went to them for talksAlso Read Was told by Gandhi family there is no official candidate says Shashi TharoorYadav also said that if the fee hike is not reversed the responsibility of whatever happens on the campus will be Vice ChancellorsHe also gave the names of the students who were allegedly arrested by the policeThe students of Allahabad University have been agitating against fee hike for the last 25 daysThe fees for undergraduate level education of the university which was Rs 975 per student per annum has recently been increased by more than 300 per cent to Rs 4151 per yearThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever