Amid a series of incidents of showing black flags to the political leaders in Madhya Pradesh, police allegedly took away black scarves of a few college students before attending a programme of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Betul district on Tuesday. About half-a-dozen women students of the Mahatma Gandhi, Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwavidyalaya had reached Multai town - around 220 km south of Bhopal - to attend the event.

They were in their uniforms. Narrating the incident, one of the women said, "When we reached the venue, a woman police officer told us to remove our black dupattas and keep it in the bag. Later, they took it away, saying that it would be given back after the end of the CM's programme." She said they were told that the scarves would be returned from the Multai police station. "When we reached the police station, the officers there again told us to reach the venue to collect it, but still we are not getting our scarf."