Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 11: The issue of brutality against the non-local students at NIT Srinagar has reached the National Human Rights Commission with the plea of Law students of Jammu University. In a petition, addressed to the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission, the students have asked the Human rights panel to send a fact finding team to NIT Srinagar to interact with the students to find their grievances and for allowing media to enter the NIT Campus. The petitioners have urged the apex rights body to issue appropriate directions to the J & K Government to take strict action against the police officials who used cruel and brute force against non-Kashmiri students.
The petitioner-students, citing threat of security and personal safety of non-local students there at NIT Srinagar who have been virtually made State’s prisoners and are confined in the campus without their will and choice, have urged the NHRC to ensure their safe return to their homes.
The plea also mentions the threats of rape and molestation to the non-local students who are harassed in the campus. It is being submitted that the non-Kashmiri students are not allowed to interact with the media and the State Government is also misleading where at one hand it saying the situation under control and on the other hand it has imposed civil restrictions under prohibitory order using Section 144 inside the campus violating the constitutional rights of the students, reads the petition.
The petitioners have also demanded immediate registrations of FIRs on the statements of the non-Kashmiri girls on their allegations of rape threats by the miscreants.
The petition has been jointly signed and endorsed by JU Law students, namely Harsh Dubey, Deepak Sharma, Alok Singh Chib, Dinesh Kumar, Vishav Sharma, Kulveer Singh Parihar, Manmohan Kumar, Hiteshwar Kesar, Sohit Lalal, Aakash Manhas, Karan Kapoor, Prashant Jiyal and others.
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