New Delhi: Two African students were beaten up by the guards of a college in Puhana village in the Hardwar district of Uttarakhand following an altercation over one of them having been denied entry into the hostel where he stayed.The police later registered a case based on a complaint by one of them. The complaint names the college director and registrar along with six others as the accused.The Station House Officer of Bhagwanpur police station Sanjeev Thapliyal was quoted as saying that a case has been registered against the Director of RTI College, Parag Jain; Registrar Munendra Chauhan, and six others identified as Srikant, Sonu, Khushiram, Yogesh, Lalit and Ashish based on a complaint by Ghana’s student Francis Koyun.According to a report on Live Hindustan, the incident took place when a guard posted at the college hostel prevented the student from going inside the hostel. Soon after, an altercation ensued between the two and other guards also reached the spot. The student was then beaten up by the guards and had to be hospitalised. A friend of the student, who is from Nigeria, also sustained injuries as he tried to intervene.Also read: After Multiple Incidents of Racial Attacks in Noida, Africans Live in Fear and UncertaintyThe police said the complainant was pursuing his B.Tech. second year and was a resident of the college hostel. However, he had left the college hostel without informing the authorities.On Wednesday, July 15, when he reached the college hostel gate and tried to enter the hostel, he was stopped by a guard. During the altercation, the guards beat up the student and pushed him away from the hostel.The police reached the altercation site after receiving a complaint. They later took both the students to a hospital for treatment.