The Times of India, November 30, 1999
Ex-chief of KUTA `attacked'
The Times of India News Service
KURUKSHETRA: The peaceful atmosphere at the university campus here was vitiated on Tuesday when two unidentified motorcycle-borne youths allegedly assaulted V.K. Sharma, a reader in mathematics of the university college here and former president of Kurukshetra University Teachers' Association (KUTA).
The police have not registered any case yet, as the doctors of local civil hospital, attending on Mr Sharma declared him unfit for making any statement to the police. However, it is reliably learnt that one of the unidentified youth, who was clad with a blanket and sitting on the pillion of the motorcycle driven by another youth, allegedly assaulted Mr Sharma with an iron-rod, when he was going to the college.
A few neighbours of the reader said, they noticed three youths, including one with beard, roaming around in front of his residence since morning.
Meanwhile, vice-chancellor of Kurukshetra University M.L. Ranga has condemned the alleged assault on him. The vice-chancellor described it as a cowardly act by some miscreants, disturbing the congenial environment of the campus, which has been quite peaceful for the last few years.
Mr Ranga said he contacted the superintendent of police, Kurukshetra to impress upon the police to catch the culprits at the earliest and also to maintain law and order on the campus.
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