MEERUT......THE ENEMY WITHIN.....KASHMIRI STUDENTS TURN VIOLENT IN SUPPORT OF PAKISTAN Sixty-seven Kashmiri students of Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in Meerut, who celebrated Pakistans win over India in the Asia Cup, have been charged with sedition by the city police. The case was registered under section 124(a) of the Indian Penal Code. Talking to news daily Hindustan Times, the senior superintendent of police Onkar Singh said: We have registered the case against unknown students and the culprits would be brought into record after investigation.” The students have also been charged with raising anti-national slogans. The Bharatiya Janata Party too has been demanding that strict action be taken against these students and asked that they be booked for anti-national activities. The university had suspended these students on Monday after they refused to tender an apology for creating a communal atmosphere in the campus by raising pro-Pakistan slogan and ransacking varsity property after the match on Sunday. The university further said that the suspension would be revoked if the student apologised for their unruly behaviour. We want the police to book them for their involvement in anti- national activities.” RK Garg, registrar of the university, told Mail Today that they have handled the situation in the best possible manner. “There were five or six students who were cheering after Pakistan won when watching the match in the common hall of Madanlal Dhingra Hostel. Some local students objected to it. But these Kashmiri students turned violent. They removed their shirts and danced in the night for many hours. They also damaged furniture, window panes and a badminton court. We reached there after knowing about the incident and somehow sent them back to their room. But next day, there was visible tension on the campus,” Garg said. “We were anxious because Meerut is a sensitive city. So we called the 68 Kashmiri students who were watching the match and asked them to reveal names of those who were involved in violence. But they refused to divulge identity of the rogue students. We suspended 67 of them for three days. One of them was spared because he was unwell. We have admitted him to hospital,” he told Mail Today.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:26:09 +0000
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