A group of Kuki students who stay on Delhi University’s North Campus have alleged they were attacked by a group of Meitei students on Friday night.

The Kuki students said that when they went to Maurice Nagar police station on Saturday morning, the police refused to register an FIR. The students staged a protest outside the police station.

“The situation is under control now. Action has been initiated and a few students who allegedly attacked another group of students have been detained for questioning,” a Delhi police officer said.

Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Union minister of state for education, announced that the national undergraduate medical and dental entrance test, the NEET, had been postponed for the 5,751 candidates who were scheduled to appear in the exam on Sunday at the two centres in Manipur — in Imphal and Chandel.

Singh, the BJP Lok Sabha member from Inner Manipur, said a fresh date would be announced and the examinees would be individually informed about the change.

Asked about the reported clash between Kuki and Meitei students in Delhi on Friday night, Singh told The Telegraph: “No students from Manipur should be involved in this issue at all. They should sit together and resolve their differences in a democratic way.”

Singh was asked several times whether he would meet students from Manipur in the capital but did not reply.

A former academic, Singh belongs to the Manipur royal family, seen by many in Manipur as a symbol of unity.