Following a clash with the police, hundreds of angry students went on a rampage in Allahabad on Wednesday.

The students, who were demanding restoration of students’ union elections in university and degree colleges, resorted to stone pelting and damaged property and vehicles. Over two dozen students and policemen sustained injuries in the clash and the latter had to resort to lathicharge to bring the situation under control. The police later arrested 14 students .

The incident took place after a joint students’ forum of Allahabad Central University and other constituent degree colleges held a meeting in the university campus on Wednesday morning for their long-pending demand of restoring students’ union elections.

After the meeting, student leaders went to Vice-Chancellor Rajen Harshe’s office to hand him a memorandum. Chief Proctor Jata Shankar, however, asked the students to give the memorandum to him. But the students refused to do so. Amid this, a stone thrown from a distance hit a student, which resulted in a stampede and the police had to resort to lathicharge to control the mob.

The agitating students, however, claimed they were protesting peacefully when some other group started pelting stones. Irked over the lathicharge, the students laid siege of the area around the campus and damaged university property. When police tried to enter the premises, they even chased them away.

Six students were reported to have been critically injured.

“The university administration is sending a list of 12 students to the Colonelganj police for lodging of an FIR.

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