Puducherry,
Sept 5: About 150 students have been arrested when they resorted to a
dharna at the AFT grounds here without police permission. The students were
agitating seeking justice for the death of Ariyalur girl Anitha and abolition
of the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET) late last night. According
to police, the students gathered at the AFT grounds and sat in a dharna to
press their demands without police permission. The AFT ground belongs to the
education department and on instructions from the department to evict the
students, Superintendents of Police Vengadasamy, Arumugham and Thazildar
Dayalan held talks with them around midnight. The students sought permission to
conduct a demonstration near the Swadeshi Cotton mills here today and police
refused to give permission, following which the students continued their
dharna. Police then arrested them and took then to the D Nagar community
centre. However, another group of students waylaid the police vehicle carrying
the students at the Indira Gandhi square. The students snatched away the key of
the police vehicle and ran from the spot. Police, however, chased the students
and got back the key to take the students to the community hall. UNI
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