Srinagar: Haryana police has constituted a Special Investigation Team to probe into the assault of students from Jammu and Kashmir in the northern Indian State after Friday prayers.
Sources said that the SIT was constituted after Haryana police filed FIR in concerned police station. A police spokesman here said Haryana police has filed an FIR (53 of 2018) under section IPC sections of 148 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt).
“One of our officers is in touch with the boys as well,” he said. The action followed after J&K Director General of Police SP Vaid took up the matter with his counterpart after Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and his predecessor and National Conference Omar Abdullah condemned the assault.
“In touch with DGP Haryana. Police is taking cognisance of the incident,” said J&K’s DGP Shesh Paul Vaid had tweeted.
Mufti said she was shocked and disturbed to hear reports of Kashmiri students being assaulted in Haryana. “I urge the authorities to investigate & take strict action,” Mehbooba wrote on twitter while reacting to reacting to reports about the assault on Kashmiri students of Haryana Central University. The students said that they were beaten while returning to campus after offering congregational Friday prayers in Mahendragarh town.
“This is terrible & goes against the spirit of what @PMOIndia @narendramodi ji said from the ramparts of the Red Fort. I hope the authorities in Haryana act quickly against this violence,” tweeted Omar Abdullah.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15 urged a more conciliatory approach towards Kashmir, saying problems can be solved by “embracing” the people rather than resorting to abuse or bullets.
“Na goli se, na gaali se, Kashmir ki samasya suljhegi gale lagaane se (Kashmir’s problems can be solved only with embracing the people of Kashmir, not with bullets or abuses),” Modi had said.
