Jammu University students seeks NHRC intervention on NIT Srinagar

NIT Srinagar Row

Jammu University  students seeks NHRC intervention on NIT Srinagar 

 Threats to Non-Kashmiri Girls: JU LaW Students’ Plea to NHRC

Jammu, 11/April/2016: The issue of brutality against the non-local students at NIT Srinagar have  finally reached the National Human Rights Commission with the plea of Law students of Jammu University. In a petition addressed to the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, the students have asked the Human rights panel to send a fact finding team to NIT Srinagar to interact with the students to find their grievances and for allowing media to enter the NIT Campus. The petitioners have urged the apex rights body to issue appropriate directions to the J & K Government to take strict action against the police officials who used cruel and brute force against non-Kashmiri students.The  petitioner-students citing threat of security and personal safety of non-local students there at  NIT Srinagar who  have been virtually made state’s prisoners and are confined in the campus without their will and choice have urged the NHRC to ensure their safe return to their homes.The state of affairs and security situation of students is so worse and serious that non-Kashmiri girl students are even threatened of rape and molestation. The media is not allowed to enter the NIT Srinagar campus which further exposes the State’s intention to stifle the lawful voice of non-Kashmiri students. The non- Kashmiri students have been beaten mercilessly and treated with brutality by the J&K Police personals, which further has aggravated the miseries  of students and has  created an atmosphere of terror and fear for the non-Kashmiri students inside the NIT Srinagar campus, read the petition. The plea also mention the threats of rape and molestation to the non-local students who are harassed in the campus. It is being submitted that the non-Kashmiri students are not allowed to interact with the media and the state government is also misleading where at one hand it saying the situation under control and on the other hand it has imposed civil restrictions under prohibitory  order using section 144 inside the campus violating the constitutional rights of the students.Giving chronological background of the incident to the human rights panel, it  have been informed “This all started on March 31, 2016 when a clash took place between the Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri students after the end of cricket match between India and West Indies. The non-Kashmiri students were assaulted which resulted in injuries to some non-Kashmiri students.  That on 5th of April 2016, the non-Kashmiri students held a peaceful protest inside the campus against the assault but the Personals of J&K police used cruel and brute force against the peacefully protesting non-Kashmiri students, which resulted in grievous injuries and fractures to many non-Kashmiri students”.          The petitioners have also demanded immediate registrations of FIRs on the statements of the non-kashmiri girls on their allegations of rape threats by the miscreants. The petition is jointly signed and endorsed by Law Students of Jammu University namely Harsh Dubey, Deepak Sharma, Alok Singh Chib, Dinesh Kumar, Vishav Sharma, Kulveer Singh Parihar, Manmohan Kumar, Hiteshwar Kesar, Sohit Lalal, Aakash Manhas, Karan Kapoor, Prashant Jiyal and others