Kashmiri students studying at Ganga Institute of Technology and Management, Kablana Jhajjar, Haryana were allegedly beaten by the students including “security” guards and bus drivers of the said college on late Tuesday night.
At least 80 students from J&K study in Ganga Institute of Technology and Management, Kablana Jhajjar in Haryana. They have been selected by AICTE under Prime Ministers Special Scholarship Scheme which was recently reviewed by the Union Home Minister in New Delhi.
Kashmiri students of a Haryana based college were threatened, abused and beaten by their non-Kashmiri counterparts despite assurances of security by the Union government.
“As routine Kashmiri students and their counterparts were sitting in college campus and discussing routine affairs.” a student told on phone.
“Some students from Bihar started abusing us called us by names including terming us as ‘terrorists’,” the student said.
This, the students said, “led to tu-tu mein mein”. “The verbal dual intensified and teachers rushed to the college campus around 10 PM.”
The students said that the teachers ensured the Kashmiri students “full security in any case”.
“However, when the teachers left, we resumed our routine,” the student said. “Some Kashmiri students went for dining in the college mess where the non-Kashmiri students started beating them with some sharp edged instrument in their hands,” the students said, “one Kashmiri student was injured and we rushed him to hospital.”
The said student, name withheld, is injured in eye and some others were injured in their arms.
“When Kashmiri students started protesting against the murderous assault the college security men started beating us,” the student said. “Even College warden thrashed us without even listening us.”
The injured students were identified as Kalimullah Baba, Kaisar Bashir, Nasir Hassan and Mujahid Ghazi.
Today, all the students sat on a protest demonstration. “In protest to biased approach, we are not sitting in exams today as a mark of protest,” the students said.