A day after a student Amol Singh was beaten up by leaders of the Akhil Bharaitya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) who mistook him for a Kashmiri, University of Hyderabad witnessed increased police presence. Students and visitors to the campus were let inside the main gate only after ‘checks’ and ‘frisking’.
Even paramilitary troops were brought in to secure the university and “prevent further unrest on campus,” Cyberabad police said.
A statement issued by Joint Action Committee for Social Justice condemned police questioning Kashmiri students who “are already terrorised by the ABVP’s rampage”.
JAC upset
Meanwhile, even as the ABVP campus unit denied charges levelled against it, student protests erupted on the university campus condemning administration’s apathy towards penalising culprits who had beat up Amol Singh.
“University of Hyderabad has visible police presence round-the-clock. It is unbecoming of an educational institution to support police presence in an academic space,” a JAC statement said. The injured student Mr. Singh said that the incident brings to light threat to Kashmiri Muslim students in the UoH.
Anmol returns
While Amol Singh returned to the university after his treatment at a private hospital, a protest meeting was organised in the evening to condemn the incident. But, according to the ABVP campus unit leaders, “Amol Singh had used unparliamentary language while referring to Indian Army and he beat our cadre up.
“We will follow up on the complaint lodged with the administration by our student leaders,” said Karan Palsaniya, ABVP’s campus president.
“UoH administration has not taken up the case and punished the culprits,” read a statement issued by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) for Social Justice.
Joint Action Committee for Social Justice condemns police questioning Kashmiri students
