Imphal, 03 February 2017 ( Evening News ) : Students of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Manipur has blamed the authorities of the institute for using security personnel to beat them up when they went to lodge a complaint about the food being served at the hostel. They also held a protest at the campus yesterday from 11 in the morning till late evening. When a team of Impact News visited the hostel today regarding the issue, students of the institute expressed a lot of dissatisfaction. They said the authorities did not take up any action despite a complaint being lodged 5 days ago about the food being served in the hostel. They were not ready for talks even when the protest was on yesterday at the campus. Students also alleged that the authority had locked up the hostel while the protest was on and were made to wait for hours outside the hostel. They also expressed concerns over hostel mess being located outside the campus in the boy's hostel thereby making it difficult for the girl students to come out at late night to the mess.