Click to play videoUjjain (Madhya Pradesh): Despite efforts to clean up student union elections and to rid it of the violence and corruption associated with it, the ugly side of student politics reared its head when Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activists in Madhya Pradesh allegedly beat a professor in Ujjain to death.
Professor L M Sabharwal and two of his colleagues of Government Madhav College, Ujjain, were beaten up by ABVP activists who were angry with the cancellation of elections in the college.
The elections were cancelled as certain committees had not been formed in the college. However, ABVP activists insisted that the polls had been called off at the instance of Congress affiliated-National Students Union of India leaders.
ABVP activists allegedly took the entire college hostage refusing to let any students go home, despite the fact that the principal of the college had given the students leave for the day.
Professor Sabharwal was trying to broker peace with the students. However, there was no calming the agitated activists, who then allegedly blackened his face and beat him up so severely that he had to be rushed to the Ujjain District hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Apparently the professor succumbed to cardiac failure on his way to the hospital.
A second professor, Professor Nath, who was roughed up was also rushed to the same hospital, whereas a third was taken to Indore.
Despite the fact that police present in large numbers at the college, no arrests have been made yet. In fact, the police control room had actually said earlier that the Professor Sabharwal was found dead in his office at the college premises.
Speculation is rife that the reason that no arrests have been made is because the police patronises the ABVP, which is affiliated to the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh.
However, Superintendent of Police Ujjain, Jaideep Prasad says that there has been no cover up for the ABVP students. " We are on the job and arrests will be made soon."
In the meantime, police have registered a case against unidentified persons under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.
(With inputs from CNN-IBN's Hemendra Sharma in Madhya Pradesh and UNI)
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