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Thursday, Jan 27, 2005

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Students continue agitations protesting abductions in Bihar

PATNA, JAN. 26. Dismayed at the abduction of their fellow pupils in Bihar, students of private schools stayed away from cultural programmes, continued with their relay fast and formed human chains as the Republic Day was celebrated with little fanfare here today.

Ravikant, a student of the DAV public school, was kidnapped from Biharsharif town in Nalanda district on Monday six days after the abduction of Kislay Komal, a student of Delhi Public School in Patna.

Even as the protests continued, yet another student of the DAV public school (Bhagalpur), Dipa Kumar, went missing yesterday.

Perturbed over this, students of private and public schools in Patna did not participate in the cultural programmes and turned up in fewer numbers than in the previous years for hoisting of flags today.

The office of a social organisation `Oxygen', which is organising the students' stir, was, however flooded with students of different schools who volunteered to join the relay fast by their peers.

The students have launched the relay fast for an indefinite period till the release of Kislay. The students are not having tiffins at schools and have urged the school staff to avoid taking lunch at schools as a mark of solidarity.

PTI

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