Two Kashmiri students of the Haryana Central University were beaten up by a group of men while returning to the campus after offering congregational Friday prayers in Mahendragarh town. The victims suffered injuries in the attack and were taken to the local hospital. “Me and my friend had gone to the mosque to offer Namaz yesterday (Friday)
Mahendragarh: India,(Pakistan Point News - 03rd Feb, 2018 ) Two Kashmiri students of the Haryana Central University were beaten up by a group of men while returning to the campus after offering congregational Friday prayers in Mahendragarh town. The victims suffered injuries in the attack and were taken to the local hospital. “Me and my friend had gone to the mosque to offer Namaz yesterday (Friday). After we came out of the mosque, we noticed some people following us.
Just as we were leaving on my motorbike,a group of 15-20 people started beating us,” said Aftab, a Kashmiri student at the Central University of Haryana, in Mahenderhgarh. “No one came forward to help us. Soon after the police arrived at the spot. We went to the hospital for check-up and returned to the university campus. We told faculty about the incident and lodged a complaint with the university,” he added. When asked if they know why the mob attacked them or who they were, Aftab said, "We don't know who they were.
We hardly step out of the university since we are from Jammu and Kashmir, there's always that constant fear of becoming a subject of such incident. We have never seen these people or know their identity or what provoked them to attack us. Maybe there's some political agenda behind this to disrupt the peace in the society by bringing in the Hindu-Muslim angle to it." The incident came into light after pictures of one of the victims went viral. Irked IHK Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti took to Twitter and said, “Shocked and disturbed to hear reports of Kashmiri students being assaulted in Mahendargarh, Haryana.” Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet and said that the incident goes against the spirit of his outreach for Kashmiris.
