Student activists scuffled with police outside Birendra Campus in Bharatpur during an hourlong chakkjam enforced by students’ bodies. Around a dozen students were arrested in the incident. [break]
Niraj Bhatta and Dev Prakash Pathak of the CPN-UML-aligned All Nepal National Independent Students Union, Parmeshwor Khanal and Rajendra Dotel of Nepali Congress-aligned Nepal Students Union and Rudra Bhattarai and Prakash Kandel of CPN-Maoist-aligned All Nepal National Independent Students Union (Revolutionary) are among the injured.
The scuffle ensued after police baton-charged strike enforcers. A policeman was also injured in the clash. The students bodies have called closure of all academic institutions across the district. The chakkajam was enforced to protest an incident Thursday in which Sushil Neupane, an ANNISU activist, was beaten up by cadres of UCPN (Maoist) at Rampur College in Chitwan.
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