Forty students staging a demonstration outside DU's Hansraj College against a "ban" on non-vegetarian food were allegedly detained by police on Friday, a students' organisation representative said.
The Hansraj College unit of the SFI said in a statement that an uproar is building inside the college campus against the "ban" on non-vegetarian food and the protest will be held outside the Hansraj Hostel on January 20
The students said Hansraj College stopped serving non-vegetarian food at its canteen and hostel after it reopened following the pandemic in February last year.
A group of students affiliated to the Students' Federation of India (SFI) has called for a protest at Delhi University's Hansraj College against the "discontinuation" of non-vegetarian food at the institution.