Army Men Beat up Students in Bharatpur THT Online Narayangarh, December 17 Army personnel beat up the students entering the premises of the Birendra Multiple Campus, Bharatpur at noon on Friday. The students had been demonstrating against the massacre of 12 civilians by the army personnel at Chihandanda, Nagarkot, in Bhaktapur. Campus Chief LB Chhetri said that almost 200 soldiers had entered the campus premises after encircling the campus � before beating up the students. Six students were seriously injured in the incident, while six others were taken away by the army personnel. Terming the indiscriminate beating of students inside the campus premises "an act of cruelty," Chhetri said: "We condemn such acts. This should not have happened." According to the police, 15 policemen and nine students were injured in the scuffle following the students' demonstration. Police said they had arrested 22 students from the demonstration. The students torched a motorcycle at Pulchowk of Narayangarh, police said. At Pulchowk and Shahid chowk of Narayangarh, the police and the demonstrators clashed throughout the day, reports said. The police had to use teargas to tone down irate student mobs. Lieutenant Colonel Santosh Dhakal of the RNA's First Rifle Battalion said the army retaliated after some people in students' uniforms pelted stones from the Birendra Multiple Campus gate at the Barrack. "Nobody has been held under army custody. We just assisted the police," he added.