Kashmiri Students Leave For Home After Clash In Punjab College

The students have appealed to the Jammu and Kashmir government to give them security or make arrangements so that they too would leave for their homes.

Kashmiri students leave for home after clash in Punjab college

At least 40 Kashmiri students have left for home a day after clashes broke out between two student groups at a private college in Ludhiana area of Punjab.

The rest of the students were feeling insecure about their safety despite assurances from the college administration and police.

"Though the management has assured us safety but we are feeling insecure as the students from other states keep staring and hurling choicest abuses at us," said a student at Gulzar Group of Institutions in Ludhiana Khanna.

The students have appealed to the Jammu and Kashmir government to give them security or make arrangements so that they too would leave for their homes.

"We are really distressed here as the situation is getting worse," they said.

Denying the reports of pro-Pakistan or anti-India slogans, the students said that the fact was they were bullied by non-Kashmiri students after the Uri attack that left 19 soldiers dead.

On October 2, reports said that groups of students from Bihar, Jharkhand and Kashmir clashed at the institute, leaving at least four of them injured.

According to the reports, the clash took place in the mess when breakfast was being served.

According to the Kashmiri students, the police was deployed in the college, only to be withdrawn in the evening. “… we are feeling insecure and panicky because they (non-Kashmiris) can attack anytime.”

Khanna senior superintendent of police (SSP) Satinder Singh and deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Jagwinder Singh Cheema, according to the Hindustan Times, said: “A student tried to jump the queue in the mess during breakfast and they had an argument. There was minor clash. Injured students are okay now and no pro-Pak slogans were raised.”