HYDERABAD, Oct 23: More than 40 activists of Shagird Ittehad staged a demonstration against the administration of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology outside the press club on Tuesday demanding removal of hostel provost.

JSSF leaders, Suriah Sindhi, Bashir Arisar and Mir Mushtaq Soomro accused police of using batons and tear-gas shells on peaceful students on Monday evening when they were protesting against the provost and arrested Habib Sindhi, Najeeb Memon, Sahil Mahar and Hemo Sindhi.

A spokesman for the university dismissed the student’s allegations against the university administration as ‘totally false and frivolous’ and said that the university was providing best facilities to the hostellers and there was no shortage of books or transport.

He claimed that ‘outsiders and miscreants’ were trying to pollute the university’s peaceful atmosphere after the administration had refused to pay them any extortion money.

Jamshoro police said that an FIR had been registered

against 70 to 80 students and Peerano Khan Jatoi, Mohsin Ali alias Muntazir Mehdi Chandio and Bilal Hyder had been

arrested.