Patiala, Oct. 4 -- Police on Saturday arrested a student of Chitkara University for allegedly spreading misleading messages on social media that triggered panic and fuelled violent protests on the university's Rajpura campus last week.

The accused, Parth Mehta, a resident of Fatehabad in Haryana, was arrested a day after police apprehended two former students of the university, Himanshu, a resident of Nangal, and Aryan, from Ambala, on Friday for allegedly circulating false messages claiming that two female students had died by suicide and their bodies were missing.

With Mehta's arrest, the number of accused arrested in the case has risen to three. Police have nominated 12 people in the FIR and are investigating the role of the remainin...