Daijiworld Media Network – Puttur (SP)

Puttur, Feb 4: After a fight broke out between two different student factions of Uppinangady government first grade college on Friday February 3, seven students got hospitalized with injuries. The injured have been identified as Hussain (20), Ummer Farooq (20), Shariff (20), and Mustafa (21), all final BA students, and second BA students, Vasant (19), Nagesh (19), and Venugopal (18).

It is said that the students had differences concerning a lecturer, Lata. The Muslim students, in a complaint filed with the police, accused the lecturer of treating Hindu and Muslim students differently, and frequently giving examples to deride Islamic culture. “We had complained in this respect to the college principal. A 30-member gang, enraged over our complaint, assaulted us,” the group said.

The other group claimed that the students in the other group used to raise a din during lectures by Lata by passing unfounded allegations against her. “When we questioned their behaviour, about 25 students beat us up when we were standing in the college verandah,” the group members said, and named several final year BA students as responsible for the clashes.

The police have registered cases against different students named in the complaints, and begun investigation.