Lahore: The Garden Town Police on Wednesday has lodged an anti-terrorism case against 150 students of the Punjab University for holding a ‘violent’ protest.
It is to be noted that, the Garden Town police has also nominated 18 student leaders, including Islamic Jamiat Tulaba Nazim Usman Gujjar and formed teams for conducting raids for the arrest of the students.
It was alleged that the protesting students have blocked the roads and the paths, which lead the situation to turn into a problem for the passerby as the protest led to a heavy traffic jam on the roads.
It has also been mentioned in the complaint lodged by the Police Inspector Mohammad Nadeem against the students. The First Information Report (FIR) directly points towards that over 150 students of the university have gathered at the Barkat Market and has blocked both sides of the road for the traffic the other day.
The FIR mentions that they have allegedly turned violent and started attacking the police personnel which was performing their duty of discharging the security duties at the spot.
Inspector Mohammad Nadeem, in the complaint has levelled allegation against the protesting students that, “They tried to snatch the weapons from the police, tortured the police personnel and dragged them on the roads. At the same time, they also thrashed some of the personnel of the anti-riot force when they came for rescue of their colleagues. Result of which, five policemen suffered multiple injuries and were rushed to the nearby hospitals.”
As per the allegations levelled by the police, “The students have taken law into their hands as they tried to tear the uniform of the police personnel that were present on the spot of protest to perform their duties, injured our police personnel seriously and snatched from them the official weapons and the act is liable to be treated as terrorism.”
Meanwhile, there were some instances that the police teams entered the Punjab University, raided the hostels of the students and made some arrests.
On the same note, police teams raided the private premises suspecting that the students were in hiding.
