Pune Police have registered cases against 50 to 60 Youth Congress workers following a violent altercation involving members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the National Students Union of India (NSUI). This incident occurred at a university hostel just before Rahul Gandhi’s scheduled meeting with female students at a local college on Saturday evening.
They refuted the ABVP allegation that they heckled any student. Based on a complaint filed by an ABVP member, police registered a first information report (FIR) on Saturday morning against 50 to 60 Youth Congress workers. The FIR was registered under Sections 115(2), relating to voluntarily causing simple physical hurt; 189(1), relating to unlawful assembly; 351(1), relating to criminal intimidation; and other relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Maharashtra Police Act.
We also went there and protested against ABVP for trying to stop students from attending Gandhi’s event,” said city Congress youth president Akshay Jain.
Earlier reporting noted: The incident comes on the eve of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Pune to address the students. Earlier reporting noted: On the other hand NSUI cadres claimed that some of the varsity students had planned to attend Gandhi’s interaction and raise the issue that they are not getting the scholarship money from the state government. Earlier reporting noted: “When ABVP cadres came to know of this, they went to the university and requested them not to attend Gandhi’s event.
