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Cuttack (India) – at appears as if the Indians have started adopting the policy of Australians who continue to thrash Indians in Australia to force the immigrant Indians quit Australia as the violence against the Afghanis in India is growing fast across the country. In a latest incident, at least 59 Afghan students of Ravenshaw University in Cuttack have left for New Delhi as they feel that they were unsafe as security provided to them by local police was not satisfactory.
The Afghan students decided to leave the university following a group clash inside the campus on January 13. Two Afghan students suffered serious injuries while five others were left with minor injuries during the clash.
Although the commissionerate of police had assured two Afghan embassy officials who had come to Cuttack on January 14 that adequate security would be provided, the Afghan students were not satisfied with police arrangement.
At least 78 foreign students, 69 of them from Afghanistan, were studying in Cuttack under culture exchange programme of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). University authorities, however, said that the students had gone to New Delhi for a meeting with embassy officials and ICCR authority.
“We will take all measures to bring back the Afghan students who joined the university in 2009 as they have only six months left to complete their respective courses”, said its Registrar, Samarpriya Mishra.
Two officials of Afghanistan’s embassy in New Delhi arrived here on Friday last and held discussions with the students and authorities on security. The issue has assumed importance as one of the Afghani students assaulted in latest incident is the son of Minister of Water Resources in Kabul.
The Central Government is also sending a two-member team __ a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs and a high-level official of the ICCR __ to probe the incident. Meanwhile, police have shifted around 68 foreign students from their private mess and hostels to safer accommodations.
Two girl students have been put up in the Women’s hostel on the campus and the rest in safe places as there was threat to them. A report has been submitted by the university to the police. The Commissionerate police are registering cases and action would be taken, Commissioner B K Sharma said. The two-member Embassy team met university authorities and DCP, Cuttack A N Sinha and discussed issues related to safety and security of the students, who are pursuing their studies here.
They also visited the Afghani students who were beaten up by their local counterparts inside the campus on Thursday and enquired about the incident. University Registrar Smarapriya Mishra said the Embassy officials were apprised of the incident. All steps were being taken to prevent any such incident in future, she added. The Commissionerate police have also been requested to provide security on the campus as the semester exams are underway and the foreign students are appearing for the tests, she said. DCP Sinha assured the officials of providing all assistance to the students. Security has been provided at places where the foreign students are residing. The embassy officials expressed satisfaction on the steps taken by the police.
The issue continued to generate heat as media persons, who were also beaten up by the students, staged a sit-in at Malgodown police station demanding arrest of the culprits. Five scribes and photojournalists had been assaulted by the agitating students and had their cameras snatched while covering the rage on the campus. They had filed five FIRs at Malgodown police station. The sit-in was called off after DCP Sinha assured them that all those involved in the incident would be arrested. The incident of violence against Afghan students and businesspersons in India are become a routine feature. Last month four Afghan students were brutally thrashed in Banglore while the business outlet of software businessman from Afghanistan burnt in Chennai and he was rushed to hospital with very serious burn injuries.
In other incidents Afghan drivers and other workers were reported tortured in Haryana, Mumbai and a few other places.
http://www.kalam.tv/ur/video/61393/index.html
The Afghan students decided to leave the university following a group clash inside the campus on January 13. Two Afghan students suffered serious injuries while five others were left with minor injuries during the clash.
Although the commissionerate of police had assured two Afghan embassy officials who had come to Cuttack on January 14 that adequate security would be provided, the Afghan students were not satisfied with police arrangement.
At least 78 foreign students, 69 of them from Afghanistan, were studying in Cuttack under culture exchange programme of Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). University authorities, however, said that the students had gone to New Delhi for a meeting with embassy officials and ICCR authority.
“We will take all measures to bring back the Afghan students who joined the university in 2009 as they have only six months left to complete their respective courses”, said its Registrar, Samarpriya Mishra.
Two officials of Afghanistan’s embassy in New Delhi arrived here on Friday last and held discussions with the students and authorities on security. The issue has assumed importance as one of the Afghani students assaulted in latest incident is the son of Minister of Water Resources in Kabul.
The Central Government is also sending a two-member team __ a Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs and a high-level official of the ICCR __ to probe the incident. Meanwhile, police have shifted around 68 foreign students from their private mess and hostels to safer accommodations.
Two girl students have been put up in the Women’s hostel on the campus and the rest in safe places as there was threat to them. A report has been submitted by the university to the police. The Commissionerate police are registering cases and action would be taken, Commissioner B K Sharma said. The two-member Embassy team met university authorities and DCP, Cuttack A N Sinha and discussed issues related to safety and security of the students, who are pursuing their studies here.
They also visited the Afghani students who were beaten up by their local counterparts inside the campus on Thursday and enquired about the incident. University Registrar Smarapriya Mishra said the Embassy officials were apprised of the incident. All steps were being taken to prevent any such incident in future, she added. The Commissionerate police have also been requested to provide security on the campus as the semester exams are underway and the foreign students are appearing for the tests, she said. DCP Sinha assured the officials of providing all assistance to the students. Security has been provided at places where the foreign students are residing. The embassy officials expressed satisfaction on the steps taken by the police.
The issue continued to generate heat as media persons, who were also beaten up by the students, staged a sit-in at Malgodown police station demanding arrest of the culprits. Five scribes and photojournalists had been assaulted by the agitating students and had their cameras snatched while covering the rage on the campus. They had filed five FIRs at Malgodown police station. The sit-in was called off after DCP Sinha assured them that all those involved in the incident would be arrested. The incident of violence against Afghan students and businesspersons in India are become a routine feature. Last month four Afghan students were brutally thrashed in Banglore while the business outlet of software businessman from Afghanistan burnt in Chennai and he was rushed to hospital with very serious burn injuries.
In other incidents Afghan drivers and other workers were reported tortured in Haryana, Mumbai and a few other places.
http://www.kalam.tv/ur/video/61393/index.html
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