Assam student in Manipal scuffle

Gangtok/Guwahati, Feb. 2: The boarders at the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT) have been asked not to venture out of the campus following an altercation that took place between the boarders and day scholars on Sunday.

According to the institute’s sources, a student from Assam had an altercation with a hostel mate after the latter, a local, bumped into each other while walking outside the campus on Sunday.

The local student allegedly returned to the new block of the hostel and threw some belongings of the Assamese student out of the window.

After that a verbal battle ensued between non-Sikkimese boarders and locals. There was no violence however.

Following the incident, policemen were brought on the campus and the boarders were told not to venture out of the campus. Superintendent of police, East Sikkim, M.S. Tuli, said policemen from Rangpo had been posted on the campus and the situation was “peaceful.”

The sources said, the institute’s director, N.V.S. Reddy, has asked chief security officer Brig. Nandgaokar to inquire into the incident and send a report.

The sources said the incident was a “minor” one.

Assam home secretary S.C. Das told The Telegraph in Guwahati that he had contacted his counterpart in Sikkim and the SMIT authorities and they had assured him that there was nothing to worry.

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said: “I have been given to understand that there was a minor scuffle but everything has been sorted out. My officials have spoken to the Sikkim government and the university authorities.”

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