4/1/2018
PUNE: Days
after two Kashmiri students were assaulted in Haryana, the Valley students and
professionals working in Pune have sought an appointment of a "dedicated
nodal police officer" to address their issues.
Around 100 students and professionals, hailing from Jammu and
Kashmir, met with Pune Police Commissioner Rashmi Shukla yesterday and
expressed concerns regarding their safety in the city. The interaction was
organised by Sarhad, a city-based education institute cum NGO, working on a
mission to provide education to the Kashmiri youth and bring them to the
mainstream.
Over 400 students, including girls, from Jammu and Kashmir are
pursuing education in Pune at present. Two students from Jammu and Kashmir were
thrashed allegedly by nearly 15 people on February 2 evening in Haryana's
Mahendragarh after Friday prayers. During the interaction with Shukla, Owais
Wani, a post graduation student, said youths like him have no one to contact
with except Sarhad founder Sanjay Nahar.".... If any incident happens with
any Kashmiri student or working professional, his or her only point of contact
is Nahar Sir.”
“Someone like a special nodal police officer, preferably from
J&K, should be appointed in Pune to address the issues of Kashmiri students
studying here," Wani said. Wani said he was talking to Shukla without any
fear now but cannot do so with other police authorities who he might have to
approach in case of any incident.
"Once I went to a firm for an interview but the moment
the company officials came to know that I belonged to J&K, they refused to
entertain me and did not even interview me," he said. While accepting the
plea partially, Shukla said a police inspector or an ACP-rank officer will be
designated who will coordinate with students and local police authorities, in
case of any tension or incident.
"I cannot bring someone from Kashmir. Whatever we can do,
we will definitely do for the Kashmiri youths. You can always message me or
coordinate with the designated officer and we will definitely help," the
police commissioner said.
On the other hand, a young woman said that after completing
her mass-communication course in Shimla, she started working in Delhi before
moving to Pune for safety reasons."Pune is quite peaceful and safe,"
she said.Meanwhile, Nahar told pune-news.com
that the meeting with Shukla was a fruitful one.
A 21-year-old woman Kashmiri student of a Pune college was briefly arrested in April 2017 along with her male friend for allegedly trying to snatch the revolver of a police officer in Bharti Vidyapeeth area. She left to Jammu and Kashmir as she did not want to stay in Pune as she felt "unnecessarily defamed" in the wake of the incident. Centre's interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir, Dineshwar Sharma, who visited Pune recently, had interacted with Kashmiri students and pitched for a "mechanism" to address the issues faced by the Kashmiri youth residing in others parts of the country.Sharma had met Shukla and asked her to create a mechanism through which a youth from Kashmir, if faced with any issue, could call the authorities.
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