Several Kashmiri students studying in Indian colleges were attacked Sunday night for raising slogans and cheering Pakistan cricket team in a T20 World Cup cricket match played in UAE.
Millions across the globe watched Babar Azam’s squad thrashed India by 10 wickets.
According to Indian media reports, several students of the Bhai Gurdas Institute of Engineering and Technology in Punjab’s Sangrur district were thrashed in their hostel rooms by students from UP and Haryana.
A similar incident also took place at the Rayat Bahrat University in Kharar.
Students from the Bhai Gurdas Institute shared videos of students being assaulted by the students from UP.
“Kashmiri students who were assaulted in Sangrur and Kharar Mohali told me that they were rescued by the locals and other Punjabi students. Students from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana had barged into their rooms and thrashed them,” Nasir Khuehami, the national spokesperson of J&K Students Association, said.
A video posted by one of the students of the Sangrur college showed that a security guard allowed students from UP to enter the rooms of Kashmiri students and thrash them.
Police arrived on the scene and spoke to the Kashmiri students.
A senior police official said that 90 Kashmiri students stay in the college hostel, where around 30 students from UP and Bihar also study.
“The Kashmiri students stay in two wings of the hostel. While the match was on, the students cheered when Pakistani batsmen were scoring runs. They also raised slogans for independence,” said the police officer.
The students from UP and Bihar went into their rooms after the match ended and attacked them.
“The police and college authorities pacified the situation,” he said.
Sangrur district SSP Swapan Sharma said the issue had been settled, adding that both sides had apologised to each other.
According to reports, at least four students were assaulted and beaten in Kharar Mohali after the India-Pakistan match.
“All the students are from Rayat Bahrat University. They said that they were hit by several goons from Haryana,” Khuehami said.
