PESHAWAR, Jan 11: The administration of Islamia College University on Tuesday closed the college section for boys till January 17 after the students held a demonstration against the administration, which refused to send their examination forms to the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education due to their low attendance and non-submission of outstanding dues.

Most of hostels of the college section were also got vacated and students belonging to far-flung districts have been asked to leave the hostels by Wednesday (today). The campus police also rounded up 20 students and resorted to baton charge and teargas shelling after hundreds of students took out protest procession and pelted stones on the administration block of the university.

The protesting students said that the administration had refused to send their forms to the BISE and imposed heavy fines on them. They said that the administration wanted to shut doors of education on them because they could not pay heavy fines. They demanded that their forms should be sent along with that of other students and they be exempted from the fine.

However, the university registrar Dr Anwar Syed told this correspondent that about 400 students had failed to fulfill the 75 per cent attendance criteria and the board was not accepting their examination forms. Mr Syed said that the boys section of the college had been closed till January 17 and it would be opened after reviewing the situation in a meeting on Friday.

Also on Tuesday, the class-III and IV employees of the university took out a protest procession for safe recovery of kidnapped Vice Chancellor Ajmal Khan and his driver. One of the employees, Sabz Ali, sustained head injury during the protest allegedly due to police baton charge and the employees also announced complete strike till January 13.

A large number of protesting employees had gathered outside the Khyber Union Hall on the campus to hold demonstration. They were led by Zakir Hussain of class-III and Zafar Ali of class –IV employees.