{"id":2204,"date":"2014-05-05T16:22:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir-today.net\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2014-05-05T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:22:55","slug":"3-kashmiri-students-thrashed-in-greater-noida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"3 Kashmiri students thrashed in Greater Noida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Were made to shout Bharat Mata ki Jay, students say<\/strong><\/p>\n

Security of students beefed up: SSP Noida<\/strong><\/p>\n

Srinagar:<\/strong> Three Kashmiri students were allegedly thrashed by local students in an Indian varsity after they failed to shout anti-Pakistan slogans and were abused, humiliated by them.<\/p>\n

Speaking to GNS over phone from International Greater Noida University, one of the students who were forced to shout pro-India slogans, said: \u201cAt around 2: 30 am, a group of six local drunk students knocked our door in the hostel. We opened door and they came abusing us. They asked whether you people are Kashmiris and when we answered yes, they started hurling abuses and asked us to shout pro-India slogans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shouted \u2018Hindustan Zindabad\u2019 and \u2018Bharat Mata Ki Jai\u2019 only to save ourselves. They asked \u2018what is your Nationality\u2019 and we replied with India. Then they asked us to shout \u2018Pakistan Murdabad\u2019 and we objected by saying we won\u2019t and they said you people are \u2018traitors and terrorists\u2019.<\/p>\n

The latest incident comes two month after 67 Kashmir students were expelled from a Meerut university after cheering for Pakistan cricket team during an Asia Cup match against India.<\/p>\n

The Kashmiri student said that one of the \u2018assailants\u2019 was carrying an iron rod and he assaulted one of the Kashmiri students with the iron rod. \u201cThen they thrashed all of us and after scuffle some other students came and we rescued ourselves,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not for the first time that Kashmiri students have been harassed by local students. This has happened before also,\u201d he said, adding the drunken students were \u2018hunting\u2019 for Kashmiri students on the faithful night. \u201cBefore coming in our room, they had gone inside a room of a student who is from Rajouri district. They had also abused him because he too was from Kashmir,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Another Kashmiri student, insisting not to be named, said that on hearing the noise, they arrived in the room of these three students. \u201cWe reached there and we called warden but he didn\u2019t cooperate and instead blamed us for the whole episode.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also alleged that police didn\u2019t turn up for their help even after calling them. \u201cWe called police but in return we were told that they are busy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe slept till\u00a08:00 am Sunday\u00a0morning. During the period, some students were continuously abusing us. Then we wake up and packed our bags and called varsity authorities to safeguard us. Till\u00a05:00 pm, nothing was done and we were attacked again by local students. After that, varsity authorities, fearing trouble shifted us to another hostel where we are feeling secure now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The students appreciated varsity management for securing them. \u201cThey did excellent job and we are thankful to them for helping us. We are feeling absolutely secure in this hostel,\u201d another student told GNS.<\/p>\n

There are around 150 Kashmiri students in the varsity, a student said.<\/p>\n

While expressing anguish, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, in a series of tweets, said: Let’s beat patriotism in to Kashmiri students, why don’t we. Great way to remove any fear or sense of alienation among Kashmiris. Thugs!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

He slammed University authorities and said: \u201cIf the universities or state authorities can’t protect Kashmiri students coming there then man up & admit your inability or unwillingness.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Omar\u2019s direction, the Resident Commissioner from Delhi visited the varsity to \u2018ascertain all the facts before deciding next steps\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Resident Commissioner came here. He assured us every possible help and said we will lodge an FIR,\u201d a student from Kashmir, told GNS, over phone.<\/p>\n

Superintendent of Police Greater Noida, Preetinder Singh told GNS that police has beefed up the security of students. \u201cThe security is proper. The issue has been resolved amicably by varsity authorities. There was some altercation between students,\u201d he said. He also refuted allegations of Kashmiri students. \u201cNobody called us. It isn\u2019t true,\u201d he said adding no complaint has been filed so far in the case.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a Jammu and Kashmir police spokesperson based in Srinagar told GNS over the incident: \u201cWe are in constant touch with Noida police higher ups. We have taken issue of students\u2019 security with them and they have assured about their safety in the area.\u201d (GNS)<\/p>\n

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Were made to shout Bharat Mata ki Jay, students say Security of students beefed up: SSP Noida Srinagar: Three Kashmiri students were allegedly thrashed by local students in an Indian varsity after they failed to shout anti-Pakistan slogans and were abused, humiliated by them. Speaking to GNS over phone from International Greater Noida University, one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}