Around 15 Hindu students were injured in Pakistan after members of a radical Islamic students’ organization allegedly stopped them from celebrating Holi on the Panjab University campus. Holi, the festival of colours, is celebrated to mark the arrival of spring.
The incident took place on Monday at the Law College of Panjab University, when around 30 Hindu students had gathered to celebrate Holi. University student and eyewitness Kashif Brohi said, “As the students gathered in the lawns of the law college, activists of the Islamic Jamiat Tulba (IJT) forcibly stopped them from celebrating Holi, which led to a clash in which 15 Hindu students were injured.” Went.” Said.
Brohi claimed that he had taken prior permission from the university administration. Khet Kumar, who suffered a hand injury, said he was thrashed by university guards when he protested outside the vice-chancellor’s office to protest the treatment meted out to the IJT members.
“We have filed an application with the police against the IJT and the security guards involved in beating and torturing us, but the FIR is yet to be registered,” Kumar said. When contacted by PTI, IJT (Punjab University) spokesperson Ibrahim Shahid denied the involvement of its students in the incident.
“None of the students involved in the tussle with Hindu students belong to the IJT,” he said and added the ‘Quran reading’ organized by the IJT at the law college. Panjab University spokesperson Khurram Shahzad told PTI that the university administration had denied permission to celebrate Holi in the lawns of the law college.
“If the ceremony was celebrated indoors, there would have been no problem,” he added. Shahzad said that the VC has ordered an inquiry into the matter.
(With inputs from PTI)
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