Kashmiri students beaten?
KANPUR: It started as just another brawl between two groups of students earlier on Monday, March 23. Location: The residential campus of the Maharana Pratap Group of Institutions (MPGI), Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Students involved were from Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, especially the Kashmir valley.
But the way it was perceived and projected by Kanpur/UP local students, Kashmiri students; Kanpur media and the Kashmiri media; Kashmir police and the local police a very basic question pops up for an onlooker: Are they all talking about the same incident? What is the truth?
The incident and the different angles:
Gaurav, part of the management team of the College/Institutions, told TwoCircles.net: It was a typical hostel kind of brawl between B Tech students Mohammad Ishfaq, a Kashmiri, and Sourabh Singh, of UP domicile, over the use of comb, which led to a verbal spat. The warden of the college came, clarified and neutralised the things.
But when Dilawar Ahmad Lone, another Kashmiri, BDS student of the varsity, came to know about the incident from Mohammad Ishfaq, he along with his friend Arvind Yadav and 25 other friends, charged to the B Tech Hostel, where a fight ensued, he said.
B Tech students were playing cricket and jumped into the fight with wickets and stumps. There was just one injured, a student named Nilesh from BDS course, and a few others sustained very minor injuries, Gaurav claimed. The student had lodged an FIR. Police landed at the campus.
Most of the local editions of major Hindi newspapers in Kanpur chose to ignore the news. Urdu newspapers such as Roznama Sahara, Sahafat, Anwar-e-qaum and Inquilab too did not carry any news. The only one to report on Tuesday, March 24 was Kanpur edition of Dainik Jagran. It carried the news as a routine news story about a clash between two groups: BDS and B Tech students. It mentioned the reason for the brawl as – ????? ?? ?????? ?? ??????? ?? ??? ????? ?? ????? ?? ???? ???? – due to a girl (as in, a girl was the cause of the clash between two groups). It, however, did not elaborate it. The girl angle, later turned out, was wrong.
Next day, on March 25, the same newspaper carried a follow up and continued to portray it as a routine college brawl type of news. However, this time round, there was no mention of the girl as the cause of dispute. TwoCircles.net
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