Over 300 students booked for rioting at Sharda University for assaulting Kashmiri student

Srinagar: Police has booked over 350 students for rioting and related offences at Sharda University in Greater Noida after a Kashmiri student was beaten up at the varsity campus on Thursday.

A police official, who did not wish to be named, alleged lack of cooperation from the university and said, “The officials of the deemed university have gone careless on the matter simmering since Monday and that has led to this situation.”

A news gathering agency reported that there was no official response from the university over the incident till the filing of this report Thursday night, although the university announced that classes would remain suspended till Sunday.

According to the official, no official complaint was made to the police about the scuffle that broke out Thursday in which one Indian student suffered injuries and was taken to a hospital.

Police force was deployed outside the university along with security personnel of the PAC. The university had also stepped up security on its premises and denied entry to outsiders, including the press.

“The police have taken the cognisance of the case on its own. The Indian student has suffered minor injuries, more of punches and slaps, but was sent for medical examination so that it could be checked if there is any internal injury or not,” the police official told PTI.

“We have booked 350-400 students, Indians and Afghans both, and we are probing the matter. Students are being identified on the basis of the footage that has surfaced and we will soon quiz them and initiate action,” he said.

The policeman said the case has been booked under Indian Penal Code Sections 147(punishment for rioting), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (criminal intimidation), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation), and related offences and the FIR has been filed at the Knowledge Park police station.

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