Bhubaneswar, July 17: Khandagiri police arrested three persons, including a minor, for attacking two students of a private engineering college at Mahura on the outskirts of the city .

The police said the students had gone out to have snacks at a shop outside their college campus last evening.

After they finished eating, they had a quarrel with the shopkeeper over payment of the bill.

A tussle started soon in which the students sustained injuries.

The injured students were identified as Ajay Kumar Gupta, 20, and Mahesh Gupta ,22.

While Ajay was from NTPC colony of Nahalgaon in Bihar, Mahesh belonged to Rourkela.

The police took them to the hospital where they were provided with first aid and were later released.

Both the students lodged a complaint with the Khandagiri police that registered a case under sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the Indian Penal Code and arrested the shopkeeper trio.

The accused were identified as Alok Parida, 30, Bharat Martha ,49, and his son Santosh Martha ,17. All of them were from Mahura village.

Police said that these youths had eaten some cakes at the shop and the bill amounted to Rs 15. However, the students ended up paying Rs 14 only.

“It was the matter of only one rupee for which both the side started quarrelling. It took an ugly turn as they started fighting with each other,” said a police officer.

The police said that both the sides later wanted to file a compromise petition and get bail from the police station.

“As a case was registered against the accused shopkeepers, we were bound to produce them to the court,” said the officer.

They got bail from the court after filing a compromise petition.

In another incident the Khandagiri police arrested two persons for indulging in a tussle in the Dumuduma market area in which one person sustained injuries.