University Officials In UP's Gorakhpur Attacked By Student Group ABVP

The Deputy Dean of Students Welfare, along with some professors who tried to intervene, were also brutally beaten by the ABVP members.

A free-for-all erupted Friday at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay University in Gorakhpur - the home turf of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath - as members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) assaulted the Vice-Chancellor, the Registrar, and even the intervening police.

After the top university official refused to meet the demonstrating members of the ABVP - a student organisation with ties to the ruling BJP - who had been protesting at the university gate since Friday morning, their fury boiled over by the afternoon.

The enraged workers breached the Vice Chancellor's office, ransacking the premises, and breaking down the door in the process.