Daijiworld Media Network - Kasargod (SP)

Kasargod, Mar 8: Some local goondas attacked students of an engineering college in Alappuzha district, when they were celebrating Holi on Friday March 6. Angered by this, the students shattered windows of the class rooms.

The students of an engineering college in Pattur, Noornad near Alappuzha had celebrated Holi on Thursday. When the students proposed to extend the celebrations to Friday, the college management rejected the demand, citing complaints from parents of students.

Unhappy at the decision, the students were celebrating Holi outside college campus on Friday. When they were throwing colours at each other, it is said that clothes of women, who were passing by the road, were smeared with colour. Some parents and girl students of the college reportedly complained to college management on this incident.

A gang of goodas with seven or eight members swooped down on the students with iron rods and wooden cudgels. Four students suffered head injuries in the incident. They were admitted into a hospital in Idappan.

The college students, who alleged that the college management had let loose the ruffians on them, vandalized the college building by damaging window glasses and wind shields of college buses. A complaint was filed in Noornad station about the incident.