Foreign Students Targeted During Ramzan Prayers at Gujarat University Hostel, 4 Injured. Reports demonstrate that understudies from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were allegedly gone after while offering namaaz in a space assigned by the Gujarat College at the lodging.
Four unfamiliar understudies at Gujarat College’s global young men’s lodging in Ahmedabad supported wounds after they were gone after by a horde late on Saturday night supposedly over offering namaaz during Ramzan. The police have enlisted a FIR and are researching the occurrence. The understudies, two of whom were harmed harshly, are recuperating at a medical clinic where their condition is supposed to be out of risk.
On finding out about the occurrence, Ahmedabad police boss G S Mallik and Gujarat College Bad habit Chancellor Neerja Gupta arrived at the inn on Sunday morning. The bad habit chancellor later expressed that there seemed, by all accounts, to be a few past strain between the different sides engaged with the assault.
As per beginning reports, global understudies from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were supposedly gone after while they were offering late-night namaaz on Saturday at an area assigned by the Gujarat College in the worldwide young men’s lodging block-A. Implied recordings of the episode, shared on X, likewise show certain individuals vandalizing bikes.
Addressing media people after the visit, Police Chief Malik expressed that around 10.30 pm, when the unfamiliar understudies were offering namaz, 20-25 individuals inquired as to why they were offering petitions there and instructed them to do as such at a mosque. This prompted a fight, stone pelting, and defacement in inn rooms too.
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“Someone informed the police control room at 10.51 pm and a PCR van arrived at the spot at 10.56 pm,” Malik said, adding, “We have taken serious note of the occurrence and severe move will be made.”
“Nine groups have been framed (to test the episode). One blamed has been recognized and the police will capture (all) the denounced,” he said.
Addressing The Indian Express, Imran Khedawala, the Congress MLA from Jamalpur Khadia, said, “A gathering of around 30 individuals entered the region reciting ‘Jai Sri Smash’ mottos during the namaaz at around 10.30 pm and purportedly went after the global understudies. Four understudies who were harmed – two of them harshly – were raced to the civil enterprise run SVP Clinic.”
Khedawala and previous MLA Gyasuddin Sheik, who were among quick to arrive at the spot on Saturday night, surged the understudies to the emergency clinic.
The occurrence occurred within the sight of inn safety faculty and the police likewise showed up after the assault, Khedawala said. “The rooms of these unfamiliar understudies were likewise scoured and those associated with the assault harmed their workstations and cell phones,” the MLA added.
Addressing journalists, Gujarat College Bad habit Chancellor Prof Neerja Gupta said there seemed, by all accounts, to be a few previous pressure between the unfamiliar understudies and the individuals who went after them. “According to the data accessible to me, this (namaaz) isn’t the essential issue. There were at that point a few distinctions between the gatherings. This involves examination. The issue can’t take such a significant structure in one day and after one episode. A FIR was enlisted right away,” she said.
She added that the college will orchestrate social direction meetings for its unfamiliar understudies. “This is an exceptionally delicate issue for us. They are unfamiliar understudies and when they go to far off nations there is a should be socially delicate. From this episode, it has arisen that there is as yet a requirement for social direction. We will sit with them (unfamiliar understudies) and attempt to comprehend what they feel and what should be possible and how to fortify their security. We will sit with them and give that social direction,” Prof Gupta said.
The college is additionally taking authoritative choices over the administration of the unfamiliar understudies’ lodging. “It doesn’t go under a superintendent however under the worldwide understudies’ counselor. We are likewise taking managerial choices in such manner,” she added.
In the mean time, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) requested “severe activity” with respect to the specialists. In an explanation gave on Sunday, it said, “Such occurrences in the grounds bring up difficult issues on the security plans of the grounds. ABVP requests severe security game plans from the Gujarat College organization.”