ahmedabad: the shahibaug police arrested around 12 students from the b j medical college for rioting and assault in connection with the violence on the college campus going on since the last three weeks. six students from one group were arrested for assault after a complaint was lodged by one rakesh gosal of 'a' block, while seven from the rival group were arrested under similar charges after a counter complaint was lodged by one amar bhatia.
those arrested are rasik dabhi, hardik, sushil chaudhary, yogesh modi, deepak, yogesh chaudhary apart from 10 others booked in the first offence complaint. brijesh gamit, hemant, rasik, piyush goradia, keyur patel, bhavesh modi and 60 others were booked in the second offence. the first offence is for the violence on october 29 while the second is when students fought among themselves when residents of block a went to the dean to demand the suspension of the students of the rival block on november 1. three knocked down by truck: three persons including a woman were killed when a truck rammed into a rickshaw at sarkhej on wednesday evening. the collision killed the driver, naushad yasin mansuri, (26) and two pedestrians - shabbirhusain rafiqbhai fakir and his grandmother halimabibi allahrakha (50). the truck driver is suspected to have been in an inebriated condition. however, he escaped from the scene of crime.