Chittorgarh: Four Kashmiri students were reportedly beaten up by the Hindu activists on Monday, March 14 at a private university in Rajasthan for consuming beef in thier hostel room.
The incident took place at the Mewar University in Chittorgarh, about five hours from state capital Jaipur.
The police were called in to stop the attack on the four young men and situation is said to be under control.
The meat being cooked has been sent for forensic tests, said a police officer.
“We have students from all over the country from 23 states. It is like a mini India. Sometimes, these small scuffles happen because people are from different socio-cultural backgrounds,” University media liaison officer Harish Gurnani told the Indian Express newspaper.
Yesterday, home ministry sources clarified that its advisory had been misinterpreted after a report said that colleges in Kolkata have been asked to collate profiles of all students from Jammu and Kashmir.
Reacting to the news report, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah had accused the Centre of making Kashmiri students “insecure” by “singling them out for profiling” by security agencies across India.
Last year, attacks over beef rumours, including the mob killing of a man in Uttar Pradesh’s Dadri, were cited as examples of “rising intolerance” in India, and the government’s failure to check it.
