Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 12: Expressing concern over the plight of girl students of NIT Srinagar who had been subjected to humiliation and given threats of rape and molestation by local goons, female students of the Jammu University today filed a petition with the National Commission for Women demanding adequate arrangements for their safety and security.
The female girl students, belonging to different departments of the Jammu University, in their joint petition to the Chairperson of National Commission for Women have also submitted copies of the media reports narrating horrifying and painful experiences shared by the Non-Local victim girls there at NIT Srinagar.
In the petition, the Commission has been prayed to issue directions to the Union and State Governments to take appropriate measures to ensure safety of the non-local girl students and registration of FIRs against the local goons for their shameful conduct of giving rape and molestation threats.
The petitioners have also condemned the role of the college administration that denied permission to the non-local girl students even to go market to buy essential items of daily use for them and for their failure in taking any action against the students for their anti-national activities. The petition also demands immediate removal of section 144 from the campus premises which was imposed by the local administration to curtail their free movement.
The petitioners have demanded intervention of the Women Commission to ensure that the non-local girl students do not stop their education fearing these threats. “The Commission may also issue directions to the Union Ministry of Women and Social Justice to take cognizance of the matter and for taking further necessary action and to talk with the parents of these victim girls so that their parents do not hesitate in allowing continuance of studies of these girls”, the petition further reads.
They have also condemned the role of some faculty members of the college and submitted that the role of some faculty members there in the institution has also remained very suspicious and apprehensive.
The petition is jointly signed by Suchitra Singh Jamwal, Akriti Khajuria, Nistha Chadha, Preeti Sharma, Sapna, Arushi Anthal, Palak Sharma, Jasmeet Kour, Meenu Lamba and others.
Trending Now
E-Paper
Follow our WhatsApp channel