Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 10: Five students were injured after protests and clashes broke out at SSM College of Engineering and Technology at Parihaspora area of Pattan in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district against the killing of the student of the college.
Hundreds of students converged in the College campus and started raising slogans against the killing of Gowhar Nazir Dar at HMT, Zainakote in city outskirts. Protesters were holding placards and demanding exemplary punishment to those behind the killing.
The students started marching towards the slain youth’s house– which is 10 kilometers from the College – to express solidarity with his family but a large contingent of police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who were additionally deployed along Srinagar-Baramulla Highway stopped them outside the College.
The police personnel led by a senior official urged the students to return to their campus but they refused and after that the security forces fire teargas to disperse the demonstrators. In return, the students pelted stones on police an CRPF, triggering clashes which continued for more than an hour, leaving five students injured. Police also resorted to cane charge against the students inside the College campus. Due to protests and clashes, the routine class work remained suspended in the College for the second day.
Meanwhile, clashes also broke out at HMT Zainakote for the third consecutive day against the killing of youth between protesters and security forces. Police used teargas shells to disperse the stone-throwers and the intermittent clashes continued throughout the day. The traffic on Srinagar-Baramulla and Srinagar-Bandipora was however plying normally today and there was no disruption.
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