UP university suspends Kashmiri students for celebrating Pak's win against India

TNN | Mar 5, 2014, 04.21AM IST

Pakistan's Shahid Afridi celebrates after Pakistan won the ODI cricket match against India at the 2014 Asia Cup in Dhaka. (Reuters Photo)

LUCKNOW: The expulsion of Kashmiri students by a private university in Meerut has snowballed into a huge controversy. Meerut's Swami Vivekanand Subharti University (SVSU) suspended around 60 Kashmiri students for three days and sent them back home for celebrating Pakistan's victory over India in a recent cricket match. The students were also said to be raising pro-Pakistan slogans.

The issue was raised by the opposition in Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Tuesday. While Peoples Democratic Party members allegedly supported Kashmiri students for shouting anti-national slogans, BJP and Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party members staged a walkout from the House.

University vice-chancellor Manzoor Ahmed told reporters that the students' gesture was completely unacceptable.
The trouble began on Sunday night when a group of local and Kashmiri students were watching the India-Pakistan cricket match in the hall of the university's Madan Dhingra Hostel and some Kashmiri students clapped every time an Indian player's wicket fell, and later celebrated Pakistan's win.

Tension intensified after local student opposed and joined in a clash with Kashmiri students.

Initially, authorities decided to suspend only those students who had shouted slogans. "But a three-tier inquiry finally recommended all Kashmiri students be suspended because they didn't reveal the names of the handful of wrongdoers actually involved in creating trouble," Ahmad told reporters.

Around 200 Kashmiri students are enrolled in B Tech and law courses in the university.

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