NOIDA:
Deepak Sharma and Ved Nagar, identified as the main
troublemakers who fomented student protests at
Sharda University, are still free, though police have registered cases against both of them under various sections of the IPC and the IT Act.
Police said that both were absconding. Nagar had visited the district magistrate’s office on October 4 and handed over a memorandum seeking action against the Afghan students who had allegedly thrashed an Indian student last Monday, the incident that provoked the row. Sharma, meanwhile, is accused of entering the university campus and instigating violence.
Nagar, who identifies himself as national president of Gau Raksha Hindu Dal, said in a statement he did not upload any video and question threats made by Afghan students to the Indian students. “We are searching for the accused but they are absconding,” Knowledge Park SHO Arvind Pathak said.
Police asked the university to maintain “internal security” and expressed concern that there were only four wardens for different hostels in the university. “It is the responsibility of the university to provide security to students inside the premises. We have written to them asking them to improve their security apparatus,” Amit Srivastava, circle officer (
Greater Noida 1) said.
(Representative image)
