Pradeep Vijayaran, a third-year law student, who contested 2015 DUSU polls as a candidate of NSUI, Congress's students' wing, said the incident happened last evening when he and his friend Vineet were studying at Law Centre-I of Campus of Law College of the varsity.
He alleged that Dedha, alongwith his 7-8 friends, hit him and Vineet.
Dedha rubbished the charges saying that the complainant, Pradeep, was in an inebriated state and picked a fight when he objected to him making "indecent" remarks.
Pradeep has said in his complaint that it all started after he objected to a youth urinating in the union room.
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He said that the youth he did not stop but "7-8 men later thrashed me".
He also alleged that one of the alleged attackers was Sunny Dedha.
Further, he alleged that he was hit on the head with a steel chair causing injury. His friend Vineet who tried to intervene was also beaten up by the group, he said.
Dedha, when contacted, said, "Pradeep was drunk and when I passed by he made some indecent remarks. When I objected to it, he picked a fight and now am being blamed".