{"id":488,"date":"2014-03-03T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/kashmiri-students-thrashed-in-meerut-university\/"},"modified":"2014-03-03T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:18:00","slug":"kashmiri-students-thrashed-in-meerut-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Kashmiri students \u2018thrashed\u2019 in Meerut University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><b style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">\u2018We were forced to leave campus by authorities\u2019<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Chairman Youth for Peace and Development Rasik Bhat Has Condemned the Attack On&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Kashmiri students in Meerut University<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\"><b>Srinagar:<\/b> The Kashmiri students at the Swami Vivekananda Subharti University in Meerut city of Uttar Pradesh have been asked to vacate the varsity by the authorities after a group of local students allegedly thrashed them over celebrating Pakistan\u2019s win over India in the Asia Cup match on Sunday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The students told GNS over phone from Meerut that all the Kashmiri students were watching the Indo-Pak Asia cup match with the students of other parts of India in the campus&nbsp;on Sunday&nbsp;evening. However, trouble started when India lost the match and Kashmiri students celebrated the victory of Pakistan team.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cWhen Indian team was in stronger position, the Hindu students were cheering. And when Pakistan team was in strong position, we used to cheer,\u201d a 3rd year B Tech student wishing anonymity told GNS. He said \u201cFinally when India lost, we cheered and this anguished and enraged our fellow Hindu students.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">The angry Hindu students, he said, started to thrash Kashmiri students. He said had their senior not intervened, the enraged students would have lynched them to death.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cThey ruthlessly thrashed our ten boys. Our seniors saved us from their wrath,\u201d he said, adding \u201cWhen we went to the hostel to sleep, the students broke the window panes of our rooms. They terrorized us throughout the night,\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">He said this morning the Hindu students staged protests in the University campus demanding the ouster of the Kashmiri students. Besides abusing them, the student, he said, also accused Kashmiri students of breaking window panes. He said succumbing to the pressure of the Hindu students; the administration asked all the Kashmiri students to leave the varsity.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cWe were told to leave the University at the earliest. The administration also slapped a fine of Rs 5000 on us without any reason or rhyme. We\u2019re being punished for supporting Pakistan cricket team,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cAround&nbsp;5:45 pm, we were forced out of the varsity by the authorities. They are in no mood to listen to us. They have succumbed to the pressure of the fanatic students,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">He said that at least 25 Kashmir students are enrolled in the University, who are undergoing different courses.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Rabia Baaji, coordinator, Kashmir consultancy, which sends Kashmir students to outside institutes, told GNS that she was not aware of the alleged thrashing of the Kashmiri students or their ouster from the University.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">\u201cHowever, today evening, I received a mail from the chairman, Atul Krishna, of the university about the incident. They have mentioned that this year varsity has decided not to entertain any Kashmiri student,\u201d she said, adding \u201cThe Varsity chairman has also written the Kashmiri students should be sent to Pakistan for studies,\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">When contacted, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Meerut, Aukar Singh, told GNS that he will look into the matter. \u201cYou have brought the issue in my notice and there is no need to worry\u201d he said. He denied that police has interfered in the issue so far. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Meanwhile Chairman Youth for Peace and Development Rasik Bhat Has Condemned the Attack On Kashmiri students in Meerut University<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We were forced to leave campus by authorities\u2019 Chairman Youth for Peace and Development Rasik Bhat Has Condemned the Attack On&nbsp;Kashmiri students in Meerut University Srinagar: The Kashmiri students at the Swami Vivekananda Subharti University in Meerut city of Uttar Pradesh have been asked to vacate the varsity by the authorities after a group of [&hellip;]<\/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-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}