DAV College student held for petrol pump clash

Chandiagrh, February 10
Two months after the bloody attack at a petrol pump in sector 10, the police today arrested Chetan Munjal, a SOPU member, and student of DAV College. Munjal was wanted for attempted murder. He was allegedly involved in a brawl that took place on December 9 at the Sector 10 petrol pump and was booked for criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons under sections 147, 148, 149, 324, 307, 506, IPC, in Sector 3 police station.

The clash between two student groups, Student Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) and Panjab University Students Union (PUSU), had resulted in serious injuries to a Landran College student. A police constable posted at the sector 16 General Hospital too sustained fractures while trying to control the mob.

The incident had occurred when three students of Landran College of Engineering came to the Sector 10 fuel station. As soon as they stopped at the petrol pump, they were attacked by armed assailants, who were in a Bolero jeep.

The victims were identified as Amrinder Singh, Jeevanjot and Amandeep Singh, students of Landran College of Engineering. The reason behind the clash was the support of injured engineering students to PUSU during the student counsel elections in PU in September, 2011.

The accused were identified as Ravneet Sidhu, Ballu, Chetan Majal, Aman Barnala, and Parry of SOPU. Chetan, however, was wanted all these days. Sources said that he was nabbed by the officials of Sector 11 police station and handed over to the Sector 3 police station.