FAISALABAD, Oct 30: A special police team conducted a midnight operation at the University of Agriculture and dislodged from the hostels 26 students, including the Jamiat Tulaba-i-Islam Nazim , Inaqalabi council chairman and some office-holders of student bodies, after their suspension from the institution on Friday night.

Details gathered by this correspondent revealed that students the IJT and the Inqalabi Council of the university clashed on the campus, exchanged hot words, and also misbehaved with the management over some routine activities.

After the tussle between the two groups, vice-chancellor Dr Muhammad Bashir took serious action and banned the entry of 26 students with immediate effect.

The university management after the issuance of the suspension orders of these students called the local police teams in the late hours, which picked up the boarders from their hostels and later freed them at a deserted place out of the city. The students were asked not to enter the campus for 14 days, otherwise they would have to face the music.

Those students who were rounded up and later freed were Talat Mehmood Zahid, Akhtar Rasool Chaudhry, Syed Khalid Mehmood Hamdani, Usman Safdar Chatha, Irfan Nazir, Mohsin Husain, Usman Riaz Chatha, Adnan Khalid, Hassan Subhani, Muhammad Nadeem Irshad, Atiqur Rehman, Hamid Nawaz Shah, Abdul Jabbar, Muhammad Tahir, Hasnain Farooq, Muhammad Shafique, Sajid Mahmood Sajid, Tanveerur Rehman, Muhammad Irshad, Mudassar Ali, Sajid Ali, Rashid Bashir Kamran, Usman Bashir and Muhammad Asif. Most of them are the students of BSc honours and MSc.

Shahid Afzal Gill, the deputy registrar of the university, said in his orders that "in order to maintain law and order situation on the campus, the vice-chancellor in exercise of the powers vested in him under regulation 18-b of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Students (Discipline and Conduct) Regulations 1978, and accepting the recommendations of the Students' Affairs Committee, has suspended the following students from the rolls of the university with immediate effect for 14 days.

Their entry into the premises of the campus is strictly banned and they are directed to vacate their hostel accommodation immediately."

Meanwhile, speaking at a news conference, leaders of both the groups accused the university management of playing in the hands of a particular group of students.