150 RKDF College of Technology and Research students booked for rioting

BHOPAL: The police have booked 150 RKDF students late on Saturday night on charges of rioting and obstructing government work. The engineering students allegedly went on the rampage, damaging college property, setting two buses on fire on the college campus against the alleged suicide by their colleague, Pancham in the afternoon.
The police have registered two cases against the students.The first case has been registered on a complaint of institute's administrative officer Sudheer Sharma. Another case has been filed for allegedly pelting stones, resulting in some police personnel sustaining minor injuries.
The police said 11 persons were arrested and later released on bail late Thursday night. Efforts are on to nab the remaining ones. Those arrested have been identified as Ramesh, Pankaj, Shahsi Ranjan, Ravi, Rahul, Ashish, Gaurav Nitin, Ayush and Abhijeet.
After the angry students allegedly set two college buses on fire, damaged vehicles, property and resorted to stone-pelting tension gripped the institute campus near Misrod on Hoshangabad road.
The trouble began when the student, Pancham, 18, was found hanging in his hostel room on the campus on Saturday.
Body handed over to kin
The body of the deceased was handed over to his relatives after the post-mortem on Sunday. The police said the deceased uncle Chinta Mani and brother Gulab Chand and other relatives came to the city from Uttar Pradesh to take the body. The deceased, who came from the farmers' family, was the youngest of five brothers, the police said.
College gives Rs 5.5L cheque to kin
The college management has given a cheque of Rs 5.5 lakh to the family as an assistance, said TI Bahadur Singh Bamne. The exact reason for youth to commit suicide is still not clear a day after the incident. While the police believed that Pancham took the extreme step after he flunked examinations, students alleged that he was under the pressure to clear the college's dues. The police said the case was being investigated.