Gujarat University VC: International students will be relocated to “safer premises”

AHMEDABAD: Warrant assembly (IPC Section 143), rioting (147), common intention (149), causing hurt (323), causing hurt by dangerous weapon or means (324), endangering lives (337), and criminal trespass (447) are among the charges listed in the FIR filed in relation to the attack on international students at Gujarat University.
Nine investigative teams, including five local police teams and four from the crime branch under DCP, were announced by Ahmedabad police commissioner G. S. Malik.

“It’s still unclear if the attack was premeditated or unplanned,” DCP Zone-1 Tarun Duggal said.
About 75 of the 280 international students registered at Gujarat University live in the dormitory where the attack was reported at 10.50 p.m. on Saturday. These students are not just from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Sri Lanka, but also from many African nations.
Twenty to twenty-five individuals showed up at the hostel complex and voiced their objections to the foreign students performing namaz there. They were invited to worship at a mosque by the crowd. After arguing over it, they attacked and threw stones at each other. Additionally, they damaged a few rooms, according to police commissioner Malik.
During the previous three days, foreign students who saw the violence claimed to have seen strangers in the dormitory complex.
“They stormed into the hostel in the midst of Taravih, the special Ramzan prayers, and demanded to know why we were praying there. Navid Siddique, the wounded Afghan student, said, “After making a threat, they came back with a mob to attack us with iron pipes and stones.”
To provide some illusion of safety, police have sent a squad to the hostel. Neerja Gupta, vice chancellor, said that the international students will be moved to “safer premises.” “In three days, they will be assigned a new hostel block. The coordinator of the Study Abroad Programme and the warden of the NRI hostel have been changed immediately.
Officials from the university said that ex-military soldiers would now patrol every dorm block.