ABVP leader remanded to CID custody

Ujjain, Sep 2(UNI) ABVP's Madhya Pradesh unit President Shashi Ranjan Akela was today sent to judicial custody for 7 days, while its Organising Secretary Vimal Tomar had been remanded to CID custody till September 4 for interrogation in connection with the death of Prof H S Sabharwal during students violence.

Both ABVP leaders were produced before Judicial Magistrate R C Madia here today. They were arrested on murder charge on the basis of eye-witness account and video clipping of the violence after abrupt postponement of students union elections at Madhav College on August 26.

As many as 34 leaders belonging to ABVP, Congress and NSUI had been arrested in connection violence at the college in which Prof Sabharwal was killed, while another professor M L Nath was assaulted and his face blackened.

Former principal Shachindra Upadhyaya died on Sunday last on hearing the news about maltreatment by students towards his former colleagues.

Students indulged in vandalism and assaulted teachers after the elections were abruptly postponed by the staff council as only 5 nominations, all by ABVP workers, were filed for 45 posts, while NSUI boycotted elections demanding direct polls.

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