Image: Quota protestors are cannon fodder
Students blocked vehicular traffic on the busy Walkeshwar road that leads to the Governor's and chief minister's houses on Saturday afternoon, leading to a huge traffic jam in south Mumbai, police said, adding, when students refused to disperse, police cane-charged the students and detained more than two-dozen of them.
Similar protests were also reported from Gujarat and Orissa.
Image: A medical student shouts anti-reservation slogans from a police van after being arrested during a demonstration.
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