Mangaluru : Eight students of Balmatta Yenepoya college in Mangaluru have been arrested on charges of assaulting and threatening another student of the same institution over a dispute that arose during a cultural programme in the campus.

Those arrested are Mohammed Afreesh (21), Sunaif (21), Sheikh Mohiuddin (20), Ibrahim Raji (20), Mohammed Sinan Abdulla (21), Mohammed Asham (21), Mohammed Afam Aslam (20) and Mohammed Syed Afreed (21). Four other accused are absconding.

A gang of twelve had reportedly barged into the apartment of a Kerala native student named Shabab (21) who stayed at an apartment at Chilimbi on the night of May 28 and had threatened him by wielding lethal weapons.