According to the Kodoli police, principal C R Rao, Prof R T Patil and another teacher Prof Konnur and two other employees at the college were arrested after an engineering student, Alpesh Patel, registered a formal complaint against them at Kodoli police station. They were arrested on April 6 night and immediately released on bail, Kodoli police said.

According to the complaint registered by the 23-year-old engineering student, the professors and other staff, after being allegedly instigated by principal Rao, severely beat him up at the get-together of last year engineering students held in March.

Meanwhile, according to a press communique issued by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), not only Patel, but number of other students were beaten up by professors and other college employees on March 12, during the get-together.

The ABVP has urged Shivaji University vice-chancellor D N Dhanagare to conduct an inquiry into the incident and two professors R T Patil and Prof Konnur. It has demanded suspension of the principal, holding him responsible for the incident. An ABVP activist told this newspaper that a delegation of senate members of Shivaji University visited the campus of TKIET at Warna Nagar yesterday. They met the students to know actually what had happened during the get-together and why students were beaten up.

Kodoli police, meanwhile, did not divulge any further information stating that the investigating officer assistant police inspector B S Poman was not on duty. Though principal Rao was not available for comment, Vijay Jadhav, director of Warna Bazaar and one of the close associates Vinay Kore, chairman of Warana group told this newspaper that the fault lay with students, as they were found to have consumed ``liquor'' on the day of thefunction. ``Those who were drunk, were creating a lot of nuisance. This was the first time when certain students were creating trouble under influence of liquor. The police who were on the night round, came to know about it. It was the police who resorted to minor lathi-charge on the day,'' he said.