VIJAYAWADA: The Satyanarayanapuram police on Tuesday registered a nuisance case against a student of Sarada College in Gandhi Nagar, following a complaint from the college principal that the student had forwarded an obscene message to his mobile phone.

The police registered a case under Section 290 of the IPC against B. Arun Kumar, a B.Sc final year student, and seized his mobile phone.

Taking exception to seizure of mobile phones from all of them, students staged a dharna in front of the college, accusing the management of harassing them by not accepting the examination fee. They stated that the principal had lodged a complaint with the police only to divert public attention from the examination fee issue.

President of the city unit of the National Students Union of India (NSUI) N.S. Raju, who coordinated the agitation, said that 127 students of the college were ready to pay the examination fee with penalty so as to appear for the annual examinations. But the principal did not accept it on the ground that their attendance was insufficient.

Though the students urged the principal that they would attend classes regularly for the remaining period of the academic year, the latter did not heed their plea, Mr. Raju alleged.

Matters unrelated

When contacted, college principal Kanchi Venkateswara Rao said that college fee was not accepted from only 25 students, as they did not attend the college even for a week so far. He maintained that the examination fee and mobile phone issues were unrelated

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