Raj Babbar detained en route to BHU after campus clash

September 24, 2017 18:56

Congress leader Raj Babbar was detained on Sunday evening to stop him from going to the Banaras Hindu University as the clashes at the campus turned into a political slugfest. The police has also detained 14 protesting students to quell the unrest, officials said.

The protests that started on Saturday night at the BHU campus have also reached Delhi as the Congress youth wing, National Students Union of India, launched a protest in solidarity with the students of BHU.

A number of students, including women, and two journalists were injured in lathicharge by the police on Saturday night. Violence had erupted after some students, protesting against an alleged harassment incident of Thursday, wanted to meet the Vice Chancellor at his residence last night, according to police and university sources.

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