Students belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) marched toward the Legislative Assembly to protest against the police attack on students who have been staging demonstrations condemning exam irregularities in Jharkhand. The police arrested 110 people who had gone to lay siege to the Legislative Assembly.
On April 19, thousands of students took the examination conducted for 103 vacant posts on behalf of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission. The results of this examination were released on July 2. Students alleged that there were various irregularities in the results and that fraud had been committed in the OMR sheets.
A CID investigation was conducted into this. Even at the end of that investigation, no information about the irregularities was provided to the students. Angered by this, the students have been staging a protest since July 25 at Jaipal Munda Ground in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
They have been continuing their protest, demanding that the eligibility test be canceled and that the CBI conduct a proper investigation into the irregularities.
Police personnel carried out an attack on the students who were taking part in the protest. Condemning this, the BJP had announced a statewide bandh. Similarly, members of the ABVP had announced a march toward the legislative assembly.
Accordingly, ABVP members took part in a march from the old Parliament building in Ranchi toward the new Parliament building. Police personnel tried to stop them. At that time, a confrontation broke out between the two sides.
Police arrested those taking part in the march and took them away. Women were also arrested. They were kept separately in a nearby building.
The protesters accused the police of acting as Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s hired force to attack those taking part in the rally.
