Brutal Police Lathicharge on Punjab University Campus Injures Dozens of Students

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- WSP Reporter/ 11.4.2017

Dozens of Students have been injured, few profusing badly with limbs broken, after the police resorted to a brutal lathicharge on Punjab University Campus today.

Lathicharge was sequel to the use of water cannons and tear gas shells by the police on the campus. Use of violence by the police was completely unprovoked and in response to a peaceful protest by the students.

The students had been protesting on the campus against unprecedented fee hike by the authorities upto 11 times of the existing fee scales, ranging between INR 2000 to 82000.

To water down the astronomical hike, the University authorities lied that the fee hike was only 12.5 percent. By this they meant only the average hike in tution fee.

Fee hike is unprecedented and so steep. For example in B. Pharma course the fee is raised from Rs. 5080 annually to Rs. 50,000/-, in Masters of Journalism from Rs.5290/- to Rs.30,000/- and in Dental course from Rs. 86,400 to Rs.1.50 lakh.