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Chandigarh:
Shootouts, cars on fire, ragging, display of money, muscle power and
ugly politics. This is not a setup for a violent film on campus
life, but the ground reality of Panjab University every now and
then.
Last week, some miscreants had opened fire at Udey Wirring,
president of the Panjab University Students’ Union (PUSU), his
cousin and his father outside their house in Sector 11.
Acting swiftly, police arrested two leaders of the Students
Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU), a rival students’
political party of PU and recovered a locally-made pistol from them.
Following this, some unidentified people burnt Udey’s SUV Pajero and
Maruti Esteem car, parked in the courtyard of his house in the wee
hours of Monday.
“We are taking these cases very seriously and our senior officials
are investigating them. We have also increased police vigil both
inside and outside the PU campus and we are keeping an eye on
anti-social elements,” Senior Superintendent of Police S.S.
Srivastava, told IANS.
According to police records, since 2005 nearly 30 criminal cases
related to violence and involving PU’s rival political groups have
been registered and over 90 people arrested or detained for
questioning.
There are at least five students’ political groups like PUSU, SOPU,
the Indian National Students Organisation (INSO), the National
Students Union of India (NSUI) and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad (ABVP) active in PU.
However, PUSU and SOPU are traditional rivals and the majority of
incidents involve activists of these parties. In fact, at most times
the president of the Panjab University Campus Students’ Council (PUCSC)
is elected from these two parties.
In the meantime, Panjab University authorities are also taking steps
to curb the violence.
“Students come here to study and this is not a platform to depict
their muscle and money power. The university should take stern
action against the guilty and that will deter others from indulging
in violence,” Manjit Singh, president of Panjab University Teachers’
Association, told IANS.
Naval Kishore, Dean Students’ Welfare (DSW) of PU, told IANS: “We
are really worried about increasing incidents of violence involving
PU students and we are making every possible effort to curb it.
Foolproof security has been deployed at all the three gates of the
university and besides checking the identity proofs of visitors they
also check each and every vehicle before allowing it entry.”
Over 10,000 students - 70 percent being girls - study in around 65
research and teaching departments of the university. It is one of
the oldest varsities of the country and is spread over 550 acres
covering Sectors 14 and 25.
Besides Chandigarh Police officials, there are around 125 private
security guards deployed on campus to maintain law and order. In
some cases, even private security guards expressed helplessness.
“Most of the time, especially during late evening hours, outsiders
accompany university students. But when we try to stop them, they
try to threaten us,” said a private security guard at the university
on condition of anonymity.
University sources told IANS that Vice Chancellor R.C. Sobti is
contemplating a proposal to debar the promotion of a student to the
next year or to the next semester if any criminal case is pending
against him.
“If a student indulges in violence either inside or outside the
campus and a police case is registered against him then he would be
not promoted,” said the source.
The university is the alma mater of many senior bureaucrats and
senior politicians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Alkesh Sharma can be
contacted at alkesh.s@ians.in
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