Bhopal/Sehore, Nov. 27 -- Student protests at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Bhopal University over alleged issues with the quality of food and water at the college hostel turned violent in the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, resulting in the vandalism of college property and a bus and a car being set afire, officials aware of the details said. Around 1,000 students in the campus, located in Madhya Pradesh's Sehore district, began their protest on Tuesday after rumours spread about three students dying of jaundice and others falling ill due to "unhygienic food and water", officials said. However, university registrar KK Nair dismissed speculations about the deaths, adding that 23 students had been diagnosed with jaundice and were recovering in their hometowns. "Students alleged that hundreds of their peers had fallen ill and hospitalised due to unhygienic food and water, claiming that when they raised concerns, campus guards assaulted them, sparking the retaliation," sub-divisonal police officer Akash Amalkar said. Videos of the protestors purportedly pelting stones inside the campus and setting vehicles afire were widely circulated on social media. HT couldn't verify the authenticity of the videos.An FIR was registered by Ashtha police in Sehore district on Wednesday against university's hostel warden Prashant Pandey and five others for voluntarily causing hurt and using obscene language. The university management declared a holiday till November 30....