Hindustan Times (Patiala)

5 MBBS STUDENTS BOOKED FOR INSTIGATIN­G PROTESTERS IN KARNAL

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KARNAL: The local police on Monday booked five MBBS students, leading the protest march in the city against the Haryana government’s bond policy, for allegedly instigatin­g other protesters and blocking a road, causing traffic jam for several hours.

As per informatio­n, the FIR was registered under sections 109, 283, 341 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code against five MBBS students, who were leading 200-250 medical students of the Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College and Hospital (KCGMCH) in a protest march demanding rollback of the bond policy.

In his police complaint, subinspect­or Ram Avtar said that after taking out the protest march, the students reached Ambedkar Chowk and created traffic jam on the congested road for several hours.

He said that the accused were instigatin­g the protesting students for blocking the road. After one and half hours of blockade, police officials tried to convince them, but to no avail.

He said that later the police collected the details of the students who were instigatin­g the protesters and filed the police complaint.

Medical students of the KCGMC have been protesting against the bond policy of the state government for the past two weeks.

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