SRINAGAR: Two students hailing from Kashmir valley, studying at Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSBU), were arrested on Thursday after a tussle broke out between students in the varsity campus on Friday.
The students at BGSBU, hailing from Kashmir valley told KNS that they were being suppressed every day after in the campus with the university officials turning blind eye towards such issues. Harassment outside the state is one thing but we are being harassed in our own state; in our own colleges and universities is unfortunate, said one of the students.
Other students in the varsity echoed that instead of playing neutral role of mediators, the administration of BGSBU, which is flooded mainly with officials from either Rajouri or Poonch, support the vagabonds; of their own areas. They never miss a chance to disturb the normal life of Kashmiri students who come from poor and humble families, they alleged.
The students claimed that the officials in the university threaten them of dire consequences which include termination of admissions.
Commenting over the recent incident, the students claimed that the local varsity students harassed junior students of B-Tech and gave them a beating which was obviously an offence as per rules. Those junior students handed a complaint letter to the warden of their hostel. The warden didn’t forward the letter to the higher authorities. We could take no more this time and wanted to confront them. As a mob, they came at us in the hostel mess during the confrontation and started thrashing us. Though in minority, we fought back in self-defense and somehow a student received a head injury which could have been because of the slippery nature of the floor, students recalled.
Section 147, 333 and 4/25 have been slapped on the students at police station Rajori, reports said.
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