February 22
In the latest incident of assault on Kashmiri students after the Pulwama attack, Kashmiri students studying in a college in Yavatmal were attacked by members of Yuva Sena, the youth wing of Shiv Sena, police said Thursday.
The attack happened Wednesday night, police said. The students were also threatened, they added.
A video of the incident has gone viral on the social media and a case has been registered at the Yavatmal police station. The students were attacked around 10 pm outside their rented accommodation on Waghapur Road, police said.
The video shows the Yuva Sena workers asking the students where they are from. When they say they came from Kashmir, they are slapped, beaten up and threatened.
The assailants can be seen harassing the students and asking them if they are terrorists or if their relatives in Kashmir are terrorists and go around killing Indian soldiers.
In the video, the attackers are also seen forcing the students to shout slogans like ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Hindustan Zindabad’.
The students were from the Dayabhai Patel Physical Education College, police said.
Yavatmal SP M. Rajkumar told PTI that some students from Kashmir, residing at Vaibhav Nagar under Lohara police station were attacked and threatened by some activists of Yuva Sena. (PTI)