JNU students protesting seat cut in courses clash with guards

A group of JNU students clashed with security guards at the university's main gate during their protest against the decision to reduce the number of seats in MPhil and PhD courses, resulting in minor injuries to persons from both sides.
The incident took place yesterday after the protesting students forcibly closed the main entrance to the campus.
Police said the injured persons were sent to a hospital for medico legal tests and that the two sides have filed complaints but a case is yet to be registered.
The JNU administration in a statement today appealed to the agitating students to immediately end their "forcible closure" of the north gate to the campus, following which it was opened.

JNU Registrar Pramod Kumar said the behaviour of the protesters is "condemnable" and claimed that he was "abused" by them.
"While verbally abusing me when I went to request them to keep the north gate open, some of them manhandled the security guards who tried to open the gate for commuters," the statement read.

The Registrar said some security guards were injured and were taken to hospital.
He alleged that a student even threatened to kill a security guard.
The varsity administration also criticised the agitating students for protesting outside the UGC office at ITO and blocking road yesterday.
"All such disruptive activities by a small section of students have brought nothing but bad name to JNU," he said.