RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, June 1: The Ranchi police have arrested 13 students for creating ruckus at YBN University campus in Namkum after they took the Diploma Pharmacy examination. They had been detained on Wednesday after the ruckus.
Those arrested are from different parts of the state and outside. After they were arrested, they were produced before a city court, from where they were sent to Birsa Munda Central Jail in 14-day judicial custody.
S.P.(rural) Naushad Alam confirmed the action saying that an FIR was filed in this connection after students damaged the university properties after the examination and injured the police on duty. The properties, he said, included, table, chair, window pans, car and buses parked in the university premises.
Asked why the students created ruckus, the SP (rural) Alam cited two reasons.
“The main reason was strictness during the examination but the immediate reason was their confusion,” Alam said.
Asked about the confusion, Alam explained in detail.
“As many as 6000 students had appeared in the examination in the second sitting. Their seats were given in different rooms of different floors of the triple-storied university building. Among the 6000 students appearing in the examination, there were some pregnant and physically challenged students also. For them, the centre superintendent had made a special sitting arrangement on the ground floor. Those candidates were given 15 minutes extra to write as their answer papers and questions reached from different rooms of different floors where their seats were earlier planned 15 minutes late. Provision of extra time confused a section of students. They thought that these students were given an opportunity to adopt unfair means. They became furious, taking it as a case of favouritism and created ruckus,” S.P Alam said.
According to the information, a centre has been set up in YBN University for the examination of Diploma in Pharmacy from May 29 to June 9, in which 8050 students are appearing. On Wednesday, the first shift exam was held from 9 am to 12 noon. The second shift exam was going on from 2 pm to 5 pm. In which 6000 students were appearing in both the shifts. At 4:45 in the evening, the students came out after taking the exam and started ruckus and vandalism. The police tried to explain from their level, but the examinees did not agree and started pelting stones, after which the police used lathis to disperse them.
