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Pulwama attack fallout: Girl students from Kashmir lock themselves in Dehradun hostel room after protest

| Saturday | 16th February, 2019

DEHRADUN: Over 20 girl Kashmiri students residing in a city hostel were forced to confine themselves to their rooms after a group of locals and fringe activists surrounded their hostel and demanded its owner to "throw them out. The situation is under control,” he said adding ‘logo ke sentiments hain.’ (these are people’s sentiments)The growing protests against Kashmiri students in Dehradun come in the backdrop of the killing of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in a suicide attack claimed by militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad. We called the police which arrived immediately but failed to disperse the mob. The crowd is scary and we are so much afraid that we aren’t able to open the room to have lunch,” she added.According to the police, the crowd which gathered outside the hostel around 4pm was disbursed at around 8pm. Talking to TOI, DG L&O, Ashok Kumar said that situation is under control and nothing untoward happened at the spot.“Some locals have told police that some hostel residents have raised pro-Pakistan slogans from the terrace after which locals got agitated.

DEHRADUN: Over 20 girl Kashmiri students residing in a city hostel were forced to confine themselves to their rooms after a group of locals and fringe activists surrounded their hostel and demanded its owner to "throw them out."The group was protesting against Thursday's terrorist attack in Pulwama.A police force was deployed outside the hostel to deal with any eventualities.Rahul Pundir, a relative of Sahaspur MLA Sehdev Singh Pundir, who was among the protesters outside Suddhowala’s girls' hostel, told TOI that the Kashmiri girls living in the hostel raised pro-Pakistan and ‘bharat ke tukde honge’ slogans from the terrace while the locals were talking out a peaceful candle-light march.“Agitated with the attitude of the girls and their slogans, local men and women entered the hostel after which these girls locked themselves in the room. The crowd was disbursed when the girls touched the feet of the local women and apologised for the act,” he said adding that police supported the mob and took the women inside so that girls can apologise.Tahira Ali, one of the Kashmiri students, told TOI that fearing the mob, over 20 of them locked themselves in one of the hostel rooms.“It has been over four hours since we are here. We called the police which arrived immediately but failed to disperse the mob. The crowd is scary and we are so much afraid that we aren’t able to open the room to have lunch,” she added.According to the police, the crowd which gathered outside the hostel around 4pm was disbursed at around 8pm. Talking to TOI, DG L&O, Ashok Kumar said that situation is under control and nothing untoward happened at the spot.“Some locals have told police that some hostel residents have raised pro-Pakistan slogans from the terrace after which locals got agitated. The situation is under control,” he said adding ‘logo ke sentiments hain.’ (these are people’s sentiments)The growing protests against Kashmiri students in Dehradun come in the backdrop of the killing of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in a suicide attack claimed by militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad.

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