Over 100 Kashmiri students in Doon leave rented houses, say they feel unsafe

  • | Sunday | 17th February, 2019

Dehradun: Alleging that they were feeling unsafe in the private hostels and rented accommodation they were living in, around 100 Kashmiri students left their accommodation on Saturday and Sunday. But as some of them still want to go, we will provide them with all possible help.” “Even though police has provided us security, we do not feel comfortable in Dehradun any longer. Even if Kashmir has curfew, we will go back since we will at least be at home.”Meanwhile, talking to TOI, superintendent of police (rural), Parmendra Singh Dobhal said, “We are continuously in touch with these students and convincing them that they do not have to leave the town and they are safe here. But our landlords have told us now that we can’t stay here anymore.”Both of them said that they were “happy living in Doon which has a good environment for studies but now, we felt extremely unsafe in the city.” “We are looking for the first available opportunity to leave,” said Ayub.Mustaq Ahmad, another student, said that the Jammu and Kashmir Students Organisation, the body representing Kashmiri students in northern India, is facilitating the movement of students who want to go back home.

Dehradun: Alleging that they were feeling unsafe in the private hostels and rented accommodation they were living in, around 100 Kashmiri students left their accommodation on Saturday and Sunday. While some said that they had done so after they were told by their landlords to leave, a few said that they were doing so voluntarily since the situation had turned hateful against all Kashmiri students in the city after the Pulwama attacks which claimed the lives of 44 CRPF soldiers.Junaid Ayub, who was living in a hostel in Bhauwala area of the city told TOI that he left the place after his landlord asked him to vacate on Friday. Ayub hails from Shopian in J&K, and is a second year student of B.Tech (civil) in Dev Bhoomi Group of Institutions.Another student, Busit Ahmad Bhatt who hails from Badgaon and is pursuing MSc in Zoology from Alpine Institute, said, “I was staying with 20 of my friends hailing from Kashmir in 10 different flats in Sudhowala for the past two years. But our landlords have told us now that we can’t stay here anymore.”Both of them said that they were “happy living in Doon which has a good environment for studies but now, we felt extremely unsafe in the city.” “We are looking for the first available opportunity to leave,” said Ayub.Mustaq Ahmad, another student, said that the Jammu and Kashmir Students Organisation, the body representing Kashmiri students in northern India, is facilitating the movement of students who want to go back home. “Even though police has provided us security, we do not feel comfortable in Dehradun any longer. Even if Kashmir has curfew, we will go back since we will at least be at home.”Meanwhile, talking to TOI, superintendent of police (rural), Parmendra Singh Dobhal said, “We are continuously in touch with these students and convincing them that they do not have to leave the town and they are safe here. But as some of them still want to go, we will provide them with all possible help.”

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