4 Kashmiri students thrashed in Chattisgarh
SRINAGAR, FEB 14 (PTK): At least 32 students undergoing engineering training through central governments Skill Development and Empowerment Himayat scheme are feeling unsafe and have pleaded early return to home after they were “assaulted” by the students from Maharashtra and Bihar states in the hostel building of Disha Institute of Management and Engineering Technology at Chattisgarh.
Manzoor Ahmad Mir, a resident of Dachigam area of Bandipora said “At around 8:30 pm we went to the college canteen to have dinner. Few students from Maharashtra attacked a Kashmiri student after he mistakenly took a plate from the table meant for the former. We intervened but they attacked us and chased us away to our hostel rooms”.
He said the Maharashtra students along with the locals later ransacked their belongings at the hostel rooms.
“They smashed the window panes with iron rods and hurled stones at us, resulting in injuries to four Kashmiri students,” said another student.
The injured students were identified as Zahid Wani from Nadihal, Mohsin and Naveed both from Pazalpora and Faisal from Putushai Bandipora.
The students said that the attackers ransacked their wardrobes, broke lockers and also threatened them with dire consequences if they stayed in the college.
The students said: “The students who are accommodated in the same hostel building in 2nd and 3rd floor respectively in the shape of a mob also broke windowpanes of the building and threatened us,” said a student while talking to Kashmir Reader over phone. “No one seems to take our statements in to consideration and have left us alone feeling threatened and unsafe, even the phone numbers from our coordinators from Himayat in Srinagar are switched off and no one among them is here with us”.
They added that though the majority of us managed to flee and hide into the room by blocking the entry till the police came, the four students were caught unaware as they were in washrooms and were taken out and beaten”.
Meanwhile Deputy Commissioner Bandipora Shahid Iqbal Choudhary said that the matter regarding the alleged assault on Kashmiri students has been taken up with District Magistrate and SSP Raipur.
Shahid Choudhary Matter regarding alleged assault on students has been taken up with District Magistrate and SSP Raipur. Matter being enquired. Further details / outcome will be shared.
He said that the matter is being enquired and the details of the matter will be shared.
Shahid tweeted: “Matter regarding alleged assault on students has been taken up with District Magistrate and SSP Raipur. Matter being enquired. Further details / outcome will be shared. (SIC).” (PTK)
