LUCKNOW, Feb. 25 -- Tensions continued to simmer for a third consecutive day at Lucknow University on Tuesday as a group of students recited the Hanuman Chalisa and sprinkled Gangajal near the 19th-century Lal Baradari monument, days after Muslim students had offered namaz and hosted an iftar gathering at the same site.

Police detained some of the students involved in the act. Shivam Singh, an MA Political Science student who was among those detained, said the group went to the spot in response to namaz being offered and an Iftar being organised there. "The university is a place for attaining education. If namaz is offered anywhere in a public place, we will recite the Hanuman Chalisa on the university premises as well," he said.

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