Three students of DAV College, Sector 10, who were detained for defacing public property, were fined Rs 5,000 each at a Lok Adalat held in district complex in Chandigarh. All the three students Brijeshwar, Dinesh and Sahit, all BA final year students, were apprehended by the police for putting up posters of the Hindustan Student Association (HSA) at the bus stand in Sector 17.
Sahit, a native of Jhajjar, said: “We were there to have food and those posters were already there. The police detained us for being in possession of similar posters.” He also added that he had been fined Rs 500 last year for the same offence.
More than 50 cases of defacement were registered
at various police stations of the city during the student elections.
However, most of them were against unknown persons.
Most of these cases were registered at the police stations in Sector 3, 11 and 17.