HYDERABAD, Sept 16: The Sindh University administration has said that a group of 'outsiders' was involved in the canteen attack where over 100 people, most of them students, were having dinner.

A spokesman for the university told Dawn on Thursday that the university had nothing to do with the criminal case lodged by the canteen contractor against some persons.

He claimed all those who ransacked the canteen and threshed the contractor were outsiders and not the students of the university.

He said the contractor tried to open the canteen on Thursday but some miscreants forced him to close the canteen. He regretted that police were present there but they did not intervene.

Meanwhile, a large number of students of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology and the Sindh University belonging to the Jeay Sindh Students Federation staged a demonstration outside the press club on here Thursday.

They were protesting against the deployment of security forces in the campus, increase in fees and registration of false case against leaders of the JSSF. They demanded that education up to metric level be made free, Sindhi language be made compulsory in all public and private schools and corrupt officers be removed from educational institutions.