SIALKOT: Fifty students of the Kashmir University in occupied Kashmir were injured, ten of them seriously, when the Srinagar police resorted to a lathi-charge on Friday last [Oct 9] to disperse them, says a report received here from across the cease-fire line.

The report said that the students, who had gone on strike and boycotted all the classes, staged a violent demonstration outside the University premises to demand an immediate and unconditional release of innumerable students who had been locked up in jails by the puppet Government of Mr G.M. Sadiq.

The students after deciding to boycott the classes on Friday gathered outside the University and started raising anti-Sadiq slogans, condemning the arrests of students on a large scale and their torture in jails.

When slogan-raising increased in intensity the police asked them to disperse. The students however, refused to do so stating that they were giving vent to their genuine grievance and as such they were not going to obey the orders. The police lathi-charged them in which 50 students were injured, 10 of them seriously. The students then left the place and formed a procession….

The demonstrators shouted slogans against Mrs Indira Gandhi, Sardar Swaran Singh and other Indian leaders. — Agency

Published in Dawn, October 12th, 2020