The opposition members led by the National Conference and the Congress on Saturday staged a walkout from Legislative Assembly in protest against the “non-seriousness” of the J&K government to stop attacks on Kashmiri students in Haryana.
Two youth, Amjad Ali and Aaftab Ahmad both residents of Rajouri district were allegedly assaulted by a group of 15 students when the duo was returning to their university after offering Friday prayers.
Both the students are pursuing MSC Geography from Central University of Haryana and are in their final year.
Meanwhile, during zero hour session of the Legislative Assembly, NC MLA Altaf Kaloo told the House that he had received a message from the students studying in Haryana University who were “apprehensive about their safety.”
“Speaker sahab, students have sent a message that two geography final year students were beaten ruthlessly in the Central University of Haryana. The students are apprehensive about their safety as they were beaten for being residents of Jammu and Kashmir,” Kaloo told the House.
He said the students were planning to leave their studies and come back home.
With this, the opposition members stood up from chairs to protest the government “inaction” to control these incidents.
Later, the members staged a walkout from the House.
The opposition parties alleged that the government had failed to protect the students from Jammu and Kashmir studying outside the state.
Earlier, the issue was raised by the opposition members soon after the proceedings started in the Legislative Assembly.
National Conference and Congress legislators stood up from their seats and raised the issue.
NC legislator from Khanyar Ali Mohammad Sagar termed as “unfortunate” the thrashing of the two students by goons. He said such incidents will further alienate “our students” from the rest of India.
Meanwhile, parliamentary affairs minister, Abdul Rehman Veeri informed the House that police in Haryana have arrested three accused.
Giving details, he said the two students from Jammu and Kashmir were thrashed allegedly by a group of 15 people in Mahendragarh.
“The police have arrested three of them and identified three more persons,” he told the House.
He said they have taken up the issue with the Haryana government and strict action will be taken against the miscreants.
Reportedly, Police have registered FIR at the Mahendergarh Police Station, under sections 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly guilty of offence towards common object), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).