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JU Turns Hot

Students Stage protest at JU

CLASHES ON CAMPUS ARE NOT NEW. IN A RECENT CLASH IN THE JAMMU UNIVERSITY, THE POLICE ALLEGEDLY MANHANDLED PROTESTING STUDENTS.

Yash Khajuria

Jammu, March: 

 With the Joining of VC Mohan pal Singh Ishar in the Jammu University in January the JU campus has remained peaceful in 2012 so far, but this silence has got a jerk which was enough to inaugurate another session of protest demonstrations in the premises of a complex, which acquires a respectful status as a University of quality education.

 “Actually what was happened on that day 13^th of march, three students namely Yasser Farooq, Zulqarnain and Raman went to the examination block of Jammu University to withdraw the marks card of a student (one of them) since there was a long queue in the respective department they had gone to the Administration Block to enquire about the same but the officials allegedly misbehaved with them," an eye witness told to TOJ. He said the officials of the Administration Block called the security personnel deployed at the campus, who forcibly tried to remove the students from the spot, which led into a scuffle.

After this the students began to protest in front of the said department in the Jammu University on seeing the situation getting out of control, police were called by the security personnel’s "Police on reaching the campus, mercilessly started beating the students including the girls," the students said.

Police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the students protesting against the University officials over an alleged ''misbehaviour''. "At least 15 students, including girls received injuries during the clash, three of them shifted to the Government Medical College and Hospital for treatment, and Yasser was also detained by the police for a while,” they added.

The three student who were withdrawing the marks card are from the Pahari speaking student association and the president of Pahari Speaking Student Association (PSSA) Kadar Khan on this episode has told TOJ that after the students scuffle with the security personnel, it was not so big issue but one of the security personnel who’s relative is reportedly is the president of the fourth class Non-Gusted officials union has created more trouble with a pre planned conspiracy to demolish the students protest.  

However, the protestors turned violent and also pelted stones at the police personnel and broke the windowpanes of the Administration Block. Protesting against the ''high headedness'' of the police and the University staff, the students demonstrated at the campus demanding immediate suspension of the police cop and the security guards for their misbehave and thrashing the innocent students."

SP Jammu South Rajeshwar Singh immediately rushed to the spot to pacify the situation. "The Vice Chancellor Jammu University MPS Ishar in the evening called an emergency meeting of protestors and assured fair enquiry into the matter," he also assured the student associations for fair enquiry as the Vice Chancellor also constituted an investigating team and asked them to submit a report about the incident within 15 days.

Meanwhile, entry of police personnel has been restricted into the campus premises for the time being.