Sharda Univ Brawl: Parents of 38 Indian, Afghan Students Summoned

Parents of 38 students, against whom clauses of criminal procedure for breaching peace were invoked by the district administration, have been summoned by the Sharda University, The Times of India (TOI) reported.

The parents of 21 Afghan and 17 Indian students were summoned after unrest between the students of the two nationalities has had the university on the edge since last Monday.

The Issue

A video showing an Indian student hurling abuses at another Afghan student, who then beat up the former surfaced on Monday. After multiple such videos showing a face-off between the two groups emerged, the university took cognizance of the matter, sent show cause notices to 10 Indian students and suspended three Afghan students.

“Students were protesting against a group of Afghans and they created a ruckus on the campus. The Kashmiri student has been admitted to Sharda Hospital. A police force has been deployed at the university to avoid any untoward incident,” Amit Kishore Srivastava, circle officer, Greater Noida 1, told Hindustan Times (HT) .

The two parties were were then engaged in talks and a committee was set up to probe the matter.

Kashmiri Student Thrashed after He Was Mistaken for Being an Afghani

A Kashmiri student was thrashed in Greater Noida’s Sharda University after he was mistaken for being an Afghan student, amid an ongoing brawl between the Indian and Afghan students of the university, HT reported.

The victim, Ahtisham Bilal, is a first-year student of Bachelors in Medical Imaging Technology. He was admitted to the Sharda Hospital.

Violent brawls between Indian and Afghan students have been erupting in the universirty since Monday reportedly over a trivial issue, to extent of police force having been deployed in the campus.

The university has been shut for the next three days and all examinations have been postponed, HT reported.

(With inputs from Hindustan Times and Times of India)