By IANS
New Delhi : Five student activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of Bharatiya Janata Party, were released Friday evening after being detained by police earlier in the day for protesting outside St. Stephen's College over its increased quota for Christian students.
Around 100 ABVP students had Friday staged a demonstration outside the college main gate against its decision to increase quota for Christian students from 30 percent to 40 percent earlier this week. The supreme council of the college, a minority institution, decided to incorporate 10 percent reservation for Dalit Christian students for the upcoming academic session.
Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) vice president Vikas Dahiya and ABVP leader Kapil Garg, who led the protest, were detained by the police after they tried to meet Stephen's principal Valson Thampu without his permission.
Five student activists were detained but were released in the evening after they gave a written apology.
"The protestors wanted to give a memorandum to the principal over the quota issue. We had to detain them when they started shouting slogans against the college administration," Deputy Commissioner of Police Devesh Srivastva said.