Teachers, students protest brutal attack on BHU prof

Over 300 teachers and several students staged a dharna near the main gate of the Banaras Hindu University here ‘on Wednesday to protest the attack on Telugu department head Prof. CS Ramachandra Murthy by some miscreants.

- HT Correspondent

They demanded that the accused be arrested at the earliest.

Prof Ramachandra Murthy was attacked with a metal bar on Monday. He suffered fractures in both of his hands. Admitted to BHU Trauma Centre, he said the miscreants stopped him, thinking he was someone else and attacked him.

Enraged over the incident, the agitating professors and students protested, which they ended after police assured them that the accused would be arrested within 48 hours.