KOZHIKODE: The police has booked three teachers, lab attender and a student of Farook College for the clashes between students and staff on Thursday following Holi celebrations. Six students and Ibrahim Kutty, the lab attender, have been injured and hospitalised in the incident. According to police, cases were taken against two teachers of Arabic department, one teacher in the commerce department and Ibrahim Kutty upon the plaint of students. On Ibrahim Kutty’s complaint, a case has been slapped on a student who drove the car and hit Mr Kutty.
Sections such as using weapons for voluntarily causing hurt and criminal intimidation were slapped on the staff, and the student faces charges of rash driving and causing injury by the act endangering life. Meanwhile, the college management agreed to set up a special panel to investigate the attack on Monday. The students were attacked for celebrating Holi after the classes of degree second-year students wrapped up.
They were denied permission to celebrate on Thursday after a Holi celebration on March 12 ended in clashes between students and locals when it extended to outside the campus. When permission was denied, they tried to celebrate in the back courtyard of the college and were beaten up with sticks and pipes. The students alleged that those who had colours splashed on their dresses were picked and brutally beaten up.
