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| Trivial issue flares up into clashes at BGSBU | | |  Early Times Report
Rajouri, Apr 18: An argument between two students, at BGSBU, which was resolved amicably by the Warden on Sunday, today took an ugly turn on Monday and triggered violence in which several students were injured and many vehicles were damaged.
Shabir Ahmed Bhat, Deputy Commissioner and Rajeshwar Singh, SSP along with other senior police officers and additional police force were camping at the university campus to defuse the situation by holding meetings with the students and BGSBU authorities.
"On April 16 a tiff had taken place between a Kashmir based student and Jammu based student which was amicably solved by the university authorities.
Today some locals again had a tiff with Kashmiri students at about 11 am which resulted into physical clashes between the locals & non- locals resulting in injuries to several students and some vehicles were also torched" said Dean Student Affairs, Prof Asger.
Eye witnesses from inside the university said that timely action by the campus police would have saved the situation taking ugly turn.
Non-local students closed the university main gate while local students remain outside the gate and heavy stone pelting was reported by both the group on each other which continued till 5pm.
Prof Javid Musarrat, Vice Chancellor who was on way to Jammu was informed about the tense situation and returned back to Rajouri late in the evening.
"The situation is well under the control. SSP also held meeting with the non-local students who later sent back to their rooms.
The situation was also taken up with the BGSBU administration and further decisions will be taken after discussion with the VC" said Deputy Commissioner.
Non-local students said that during last three official holidays' locals from Poonch and Jammu district decided to go home and after skipping Saturday they decided to join classes on Monday.
In the meantime, non-local students joined classes on Saturday which irked the local students who had decided to skip classes.
Some local students also came back on Saturday after knowing that non-locals had joined class work. "In the evening hours on Saturday enraged over the decision of the non-local students, a local student had a tiff with non-local student and he was allegedly thrashed severely by the locals" said a non-local student.
He added student was rushed to hospital and on Sunday morning we approached the Rajouri police to lodge a complaint but the police refused to take cognizance, alleged non-local students.
"We approached the police on Sunday to lodge complaint but were refused by the police. Meanwhile Registrar and Dean Student Affairs sorted out the matter on Sunday and both the groups were requested to not to flare up the matter" said another student.
It remained peaceful on Sunday but at about 11 am today some local students again thrashed a non-local student which enraged other students also and what had happened in the university was the result of this brawl, said another student.
"Vice Chancellor has directed on the telephone to constitute internal inquiry committee which will submit its report within 3 days and those who will be found responsible for the violence will be dealt under law" said Attat Hussain , Registrar, BGSBU.
When asked whether the administration would close the university for few days to control the situation he said: "It is under the jurisdiction of Vice Chancellor and he will take decision in this matter". |
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