15 Hindu Students from Pakistan’s Punjab College Injured After Being Stopped from Celebrating Holi
Khet Kumar, who suffered injuries on his hand, said the college guards thrashed them after they held a demonstration. (Image: Reuters/Manual)
The incident took put on the Legislation College of Punjab College on Monday, when around 30 Hindu students gathered to possess a truthful time Holi
On the least 15 students from Pakistan’s minority Hindu neighborhood had been injured on Monday after contributors of an intensive Islamic student organisation allegedly stopped them from celebrating Holi on the Punjab College premises here.
Holi, a pageant of colors, is infamous to assign the onset of spring.
The incident took put on the Legislation College of Punjab College on Monday, when around 30 Hindu students gathered to possess a truthful time Holi.
“As students gathered on the lawns of the law college, the Islami Jamiat Tulba (IJT) activists forcibly stopped them from celebrating Holi, which ended in a conflict main to injuries to 15 Hindu students,” Kashif Brohi, a college student and an eyewitness told PTI.
They’d taken a earlier permission from the college administration, Brohi claimed.
Khet Kumar, who suffered injuries on his hand, said the college guards thrashed them after they held a demonstration beginning air the Vice-Chancellor put of job to pronounce the therapy meted out by IJT contributors.
“We now possess got filed an utility with the police towards the IJT and the safety guards fascinated by thrashing and torturing us, but FIR has no longer been registered as but,” Kumar said.
When contacted by PTI, IJT (Punjab College) spokesperson Ibrahim Shahid denied the involvement of its students within the incident.
“Not considered one of many students fascinated by a brawl with the Hindu students belong to the IJT,” he said and added the IJT organised ‘Quran Reading’ on the law college.
Punjab College spokesman Khurram Shahzad told PTI that the varsity administration had no longer given permission to the retain Holi celebrations on the lawns of the law college.
“There wouldn’t had been any space had the celebrations had been seen indoors,” he said.
Shahzad added the V-C has ordered inquiry into the topic.
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