On September 7, 2024, students affiliated with Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Students Federation of India (SFI) clashed at the Himachal Pradesh University, resulting in several student injuries. 

Early that day, as ABVP students were welcoming students at the university gate, ABVP and SFI students entered into a heated argument. The dispute turned physical, injuring several students and requiring the police to intervene.

Scholars at Risk is concerned about violent attacks by students against other students in retaliation for their exercise of their rights to freedom of association. Scholars at Risk calls on all parties to exercise restraint and to avoid violence. State authorities have the right and obligation to maintain order, which they must with due regard for the rights of protesters and others, including the rights to free expression, academic freedom, peaceful assembly, and due process.

Sources:
*SAR identified this incident in data made publicly available by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) Chandigarh Tribune; Press Trust of India
https://theprint.in/india/abvp-sfi-activists-clash-at-himachal-pradesh-university/2257659/
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/additional-police-force-deployed-after-clash-in-himachal-pradesh-university/
https://himachaltonite.com/himachal/clash-between-abvp-and-sfi-activists-erupts-at-himachal-pradesh-university/