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Pro-quota students attack police, media

Pro-quota medical students and doctors staging a rally in Patna attacked mediamen and police, who retaliated with a baton charge.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

PATNA: Pro-quota medical students and doctors staging a rally here on Friday attacked mediamen and police, who retaliated with a baton charge.

Police said 35 people, including 15 members of the media and policemen, were injured in the action.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar directed state police chief Ashish Ranjan Sinha to probe the incident and submit a report.

Claiming that the media was "suppressing" the proposed 27 per cent reservations for OBCs in institutions of higher learning, the protestors attacked with sticks and other objects photo-journalists and cameramen covering their rally.

Hundreds of students and resident doctors, who had taken out the procession from Gandhi Maidan shouted slogans against those who opposed reservations, and attacked policemen at the busy Dak Bungalow roundabout.

The police resorted to a heavy baton-charge against protestors, leaving over 20 of them injured, officials said.

Photographers of the Press Trust of India, Times of India and Hindustan Times, cameramen of Star News and Aaj Tak
Television channels and some journalists were injured. A couple of lensmen suffered head injuries and were rushed to Patna Medical College Hospital.

Policemen were seen beating up the students, who scurried for cover on Frazer Road, eyewitnesses claimed.

The students charged the press with "trying to suppress the Centre's move to reserve seats for OBCs". They burned effigies of anti-quota protestors.

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