Kashmiri students suspended in India for supporting
Pakistan in cricket, BBC
A university in northern India has temporarily suspended more than 60
students from Indian-administered Kashmir for allegedly supporting Pakistan in
a cricket match, reports say.
Pakistan forced India's exit from the ongoing Asia Cup in a nail-biting
finish on Sunday. Emotions run high both on and off the field whenever the
neighbouring countries play a cricket match.
A group of students at the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in Uttar
Pradesh state allegedly "celebrated Pakistan's win", leading to
arguments with other college mates, reports say.
The university administration then ordered an inquiry and decided to suspend
the students from Kashmir, reports The Times of
India.
They were then taken to Delhi escorted by police to avoid further
confrontation, local media reports said.
University vice-chancellor Manzoor Ahmed said the suspension was a
"precautionary measure".
"There was strong resentment against the students who had shouted
anti-national and pro-Pakistan slogans after Pakistan won the match. So as a
precautionary measure, we temporarily suspended students of Jammu and Kashmir
for three days.
"We arranged two buses to take the boys to Ghaziabad (suburb of
Delhi). We also sent three senior university officials with them," The Indian
Express quotes Mr Ahmed as saying.
Some of the Kashmiri students deny any wrongdoing in their statements to
the media.
"When we clapped at the victory of Pakistan, it infuriated the
local students. They went on a rampage, damaged the hall, hurled abuses at us,
and threatened to beat us," Irfan Ahmad, an engineering student at the
university, told the Kashmir Reader.
A groups of parents from the Kashmir Valley have also reacted over the
incident.
"There was a heated argument between some students but most
students are innocent, so we think college did a good thing by sending them...
in order to avoid any clashes," the Hindustan Times quotes
one of the parents as saying.
Claimed by both countries in its entirety, Kashmir has been a flashpoint
for more than 60 years.
"Horrendous" test
Meanwhile, the health ministry has banned the "two-finger
test" (also known as virginity test) performed on rape victims, calling it
"unscientific", as part of the new guidelines drawn for treating such
cases, The Hindureports.
The guidelines were drafted by experts and Indrajit Khandekar, a member
of India's Clinical Forensic Medicine Unit, referred to the current treatment
of rape victims as "pitiable and horrendous".
"It has been observed that rape victims are usually put under a
horribly judgmental microscope from the moment they call the cops. They are
often subjected to judgmental attitudes by doctors and other medical staff in
the hospital," the report quotes Mr Khandekar as saying.
Meanwhile, the Indian embassy in Kiev has asked all Indian nationals in
Ukraine "to register on its website with all necessary details so that
they could be contacted quickly in case of any eventuality", The Deccan
Herald reports.
India has about 4,000 students studying in Ukraine which is going
through a political turmoil after President Viktor Yanukovych was deposed by an
interim government on 22 February.
Meanwhile, India's University Grants Commission (UGC) has banned
dissection of any "live animal" in universities for science studies, The Hindu reports.
"You are requested to come up with alternate modes of dissections
using digital dissected specimen," the UGC said in a letter to the universities.
And finally, a 19th Century sword, which is one of the "most
significant heirlooms" belonging to the last Sikh emperor Maharaja Ranjit
Singh, will be sold at an auction in the UK later this month", The Tribune reports.
Mullock's Auctioneers, who are organising the sale, says the sword was
in the possession of an English family of military descent and was
"originally thought to be an Islamic sword belonging to a Moghul
Prince", the report says.
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