Kasargod, Jul 3: Police resorted to lathi-charge after a march by the activists of Students Federation of India (SFI) to the Revenue Divisional Office (RDO) in Kanhangad on Tuesday turned violent.
The SFI members, led by its Kasargod district Secretary Shalu Mathew, took out the march to the RDO office this afternoon accusing the government of scuttling the admission norms by empowering the self-financing engineering colleges in the State to enrol 65 per cent students under the management quota.
As the protestors tried to barge into the premises of the RDO defying the police warning, the students indulged in heated altercation with the police and in the melee two policemen sustained injuries due to stone pelting, police said.
The police later resorted to lathi-charge to force the protestors to disperse from the spot, injuring several SFI workers including Mr. Shalu Mathew.
Three SFI activists — K. Vineesh (19), K.M. Gireesh Balan (19), and A.V. Shiva Prasad (23) — were arrested under provisions of the IPC section 332, police said.
The SFI activists flayed the State government for issuing a circular last week allowing self financing engineering colleges to make 65 per cent admission under the management quota, thereby upsetting the 50 per cent admission for meritorious students.
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