KARACHI, Sept 7: Five students and three teachers were taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal examination as they received injuries when rangers resorted to baton-charge on them in Karachi University on Saturday morning.

“We have examined eight persons, who came here from the varsity. Among them, three are professors”, Additional Police Surgeon Jalil Qadir at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital told Dawn.

“We have found multiple injuries inflicted by blunt weapons on the bodies of the injured, but no grievous injuries was inflicted upon anybody,” he added.

The medico-legal examination was performed on Abdul Qadeer, head of the applied physics department, Prof Sarwar Naseem and Aftab Ahmed Siddiqui, teachers of the Mass Communications Department. The students who reported to the hospital were Tauqeer of Applied Physics, Nasrul Islam Usmani of Applied Chemistry, Syed Zafar Ali, Rafiq Ahmed and Syed Noman of Mass Communications departments.

Dr Abdul Qadeer said: “I’ve refused Canadian immigration and stayed here in Pakistan to serve the nation. I have been teaching here for the past 28 years and did not see a situation like this.”

An official at Mobina Town police said that the teachers and students had gathered in front of administration block in the varsity to protest over the forced retirement of a lecturer. The “security staff” of the university resorted to baton-charge on them disperse the crowd.

The police official said Prof Sarwar Naseem and Prof Abdul Qadeer came to the police station and informed the police that they and some students had been injured in the baton- charge.

They later went to Abbasi Hospital for a medico legal examination.

He said till the evening no one had turned up the police station to register an FIR against the security staff of the varsity.