Students and activists who were protesting outside the Central University of Karnataka (CUK) at Kadaganchi in Aland taluk of Kalaburagi district demanding the resignation of CUK Registrar Basavaraj Donur have been detained by the Narona police on Tuesday evening.
Organised under the banners of the Universities Welfare Committee and Republican Youth Federation, the activists gathered at the CUK main gate at about 10 a.m. and continued to protest till some of the leaders of the agitation were taken into custody by the Narona police in late in the evening.
Despite the repeated requests from the agitating activists and the police, CUK Vice-Chancellor Battu Satyanarayana did not come to the agitation site to listen to the agitators and receive their memorandum in which the alleged irregularities and corruption of Mr. Donur were listed.
