India, Oct. 3 -- Nine persons, including seven students, have been apprehended in connection with the violence on the Lovely Professional University (LPU) campus, police said on Friday.

DIG Jalandhar Range Naveen Singla told reporters on Friday that two FIRs were registered in connection with the incidents of arson, loot, rioting, infrastructure damage, police vehicles being torched, unprovoked attack on police force and blockade of the national highway.

"In both these FIRs, based on CCTV footage, technical analysis, media posts, social media posts and other corroborative evidence, we have carried out nine arrests so far," the DIG said.

Among those apprehended is a juvenile, he said.

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