India, Sept. 28 -- Violence broke out on Saturday during the student union elections at Motiram Baburam Postgraduate (MBPG) College, Kumaon's largest higher-education institution, as rival student groups clashed, hurled stones, and allegedly misbehaved with police personnel.

The police resorted to a lathi-charge to disperse the crowd and restore order.

MBPG College has 13,978 registered students.

In this student body election, Abhishek Goswami contested from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Kamal Vora from the National Students' Union of India (NSUI), and Mohammad Arshad as an independent candidate.

Polling began at 9 am.

Within the first hour of polling, NSUI candidate Kamal Vora alleged that two "fake" students attemp...