Aligarh, December 26, 2022 (PPI-OT):After a Kashmiri scholar was beaten up at Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), the campus remains on edge as students from the valley took out a protest march. The students from Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, studying at the AMU said they are being discriminated against for no reason. “J-K students are being discriminated against here,” Zubair Altaf Reshi, a research scholar at the university, told the media. “When we try to reach university administration for the complaints, they don’t respond well.”

As per the students, the Ph.D. scholar, whose name has not been included in the story, “was trying to sleep” at 1:30am when he heard noises in the badminton court outside his room. “He had requested them to keep it low a couple of times but they ignored it,” a student at the university said. “The third time they abused him and thrashed him.” This is not the first incident of its kind. More so, it is the third incident at the AMU in just over a month. Underlining the paranoia, on 25 December, J-K Students Association tweeted: “Kashmiri students are being repeatedly harassed at AMU. We are receiving frantic calls from scholars about harassment and yet another thrashing case today.”

Zubair said that the students don’t feel secure anymore. “We can’t say why this is happening. Only university authorities can tell the reason,” he added. The students from J-K also said that the UP students “had katte (locally made guns) and they tried to attack us when we were protesting”. “We have sent the memorandum to university authorities and are waiting for their response,” said Zubair.

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