LAHORE: As they attacked the participants in the “Students Rights March” on Tuesday, Punjab University security guards tortured thirty students and left them with injuries.
The walk was being held by the Punjab College Understudy League (PUSF), a collection of various understudy associations, including those of Pashtun, Baloch, Seraiki and Punjabi understudies, outside the Organization of Instruction and Exploration (IER) to press for its requests.
The understudies’ requests included inversion of ongoing charge climbs, understudy portrayal in badgering councils, development of new lodgings, goal of grant issues, reclamation of shares for South Punjab ancestral regions, and an examination concerning the demise of a female understudy tracked down hanging in the college inn.
Students also demanded that law enforcement stop profiling students.
When security guards allegedly attacked the protesters outside the IER in an effort to disperse them and stole a microphone from Pashtun Council chairman Arif Kakar, who was speaking to the protesters, the protesters responded.
A video cut being shared via web-based entertainment likewise shows the safety officers attempting to stop the walk and going after the understudies.
The video shows the understudies opposing the gatekeepers who are going after them with twirly doos. After initially retreating, the students began hurling rocks and glass bottles at the guards. Because of the conflict, 30 understudies and 10 watchmen endured wounds.
Ten security guards were also hurt in the fight; understudies were challenging young lady’s demise in lodging, expense climb
Mr Kakar told Day break the understudies were holding their issues-related privileges walk when the watchmen began going after and tormenting them. He claimed that the chief security officer (CSO) threatened them for holding the protest on the campus and that the CSO ordered the guards to attack them even though they were holding a peaceful demonstration. He asserted that the watchmen’s torment had left 30 understudies harmed.
“The CSO reached his folks and furthermore compromised them that he wouldn’t permit their child to finish his certification,” he affirmed.
Kakar guaranteed that they were assembled to request equity for the young lady who was found dead in the inn last week and the new semester expense climb.
“We request the organization make a move against the watchmen for tormenting the understudies,” he said.
A weighty police contingent, drove by Iqbal Town SP Bilal Ahmad, moved toward the grounds and scattered the understudies and safety officers.
Dawn was informed by a PU official who spoke on condition of anonymity that SP Ahmad questioned the CSO’s decision to order the guards to disperse the peaceful students protesting, resulting in a law and order situation on campus.
The CSO was accused of ordering the guards to disperse the students in the presence of the police, and the police officer stated that he would report the matter to the vice chancellor.
The PU representative dismissed the understudies guarantee as well as the video film, saying that the understudies had gone after the gatekeepers with glass containers, stones and sticks and accordingly, 10 watchmen experienced serious wounds to the heads and different pieces of the body.
He said the understudy associations had guaranteed that they wouldn’t include themselves in that frame of mind before their assembly however the discourses were made against the standard working system and they were exceptionally provocative.
The spokesperson for the PU stated that the security staff immediately informed the head of the student organization of the provocative speeches, but he did not intervene. He claimed that when the students attacked the guards, they took a student aside for giving a provocative speech.
He said that the understudies went after the watchmen with glass containers, stones and sticks before the gatekeepers made a move in their own protection.
Punjab College Bad habit Chancellor Dr Muhammad Ali Shah considered the episode and denounced the assault on the safety officers without referencing 30 harmed understudies.
In light of the statements made by eyewitnesses and the videos, he issued instructions for the best treatment of the injured guards and strict action against students involved in the “hooliganism.”
To investigate the altercation that took place between PU students and security guards, the Punjab government has established a four-member fact-finding committee with Dr. Qaiser Abbas, vice chancellor of the University of Sargodha, serving as convener.
Prof. Khalid Mahmood, pro vice-chancellor of PU, Additional Secretary Muhammad Azam, Higher Education Department Additional Secretary, and Deputy Secretary (Univ-I) Usman Ibrahim are additional members.
