Chandigarh, Aug. 1 -- In the second such incident at SD College-32 this week, three students were brutally attacked with sharp-edged weapons on Tuesday afternoon.

The attack is believed to be a retaliatory strike against an earlier altercation on campus in which a first-year student was beaten up over a political altercation. Student council elections are set to take place on campus in the first week of September.

As per the police, Thursday's incident took place around 12:15 pm when a mob, allegedly led college president Jatanjot Singh Gill and Student Democratic Collective Union (SDCU) party leaders Navleen Sidhu, Navdeep, Aman Malik, Dilsher, and Aarsh, approached three students sitting in the canteen area. Before they could react, t...