Youth allege ABVP-BJP-Police collusion
The campus of Maulana Azad Memorial (MAM) College, Jammu remains tense after police picked up seven Muslim students late last night from the college hostel.
The seven boys who have been picked up and lodged in Gandhinagar Police Station include Mohammed Israr, Rabnawaz, Fazal, Murtaza, Zulfiqar, Sheraz and Mumtaz. All these seven belong to the twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch.
They boys arrested after police lodged an FIR against them under sections 451, 323 and 147 RPC. Sources said that the FIR was lodged at the behest of some BJP ministers, who had come in support of ABVP, the party’s student wing.
Reports said ministers are keenly following the developments, since the ABVP had spread a word that “Muslim students had beaten up Hindu boys in the hostels”. This news spread and ABVP mobilized their university and college units of Jammu city and entered the campus at around 9 pm late on Thursday. They raised slogans and demanded lodging of an FIR against the Muslim students, said the reports, adding the sloganeering led to Muslims student residing in the campus making calls to their relatives and friends, narrating the sense of insecurity that had gripped them.
The protest reports said ended after police assured the ABVP leaders that an FIR has been lodged and action would be taken within shortest possible time. Police later as per the reports swooped on the campus and picked up seven students at around 2.30 am in the dead of night,” reports said.
Muslim students residing in the hostels of the MAM College said a minor scuffle between them and a group of Hindu students are being exploited by ABVP and its affiliate student organizations to create a sense of fear among Muslim students residing in the hostels.
DIG Jammu Ashkur Wani said that seven students were arrested after a scuffle between two groups.
“All the arrested have been bailed out. The two groups unfortunately Hindu and Muslim had a scuffle over some minor issue. One student was injured who complained against few students who were detained. But all of them have been bailed out today,” Wani said.
