Kashmiri students attacked in Punjab after India vs Pakistan

Ground Report | New Delhi: Kashmiri students attacked in Punjab; Several Kashmiri students at an engineering college in Punjab's Sangrur alleged that they were attacked after India lost their maiden T20 World Cup match against Pakistan.

Kashmiri students attacked in Punjab

According to a report, several students were attacked at Bhai Guru Das Institute of Engineering and Technology in Sangrur, Punjab. Their hostel rooms were attacked.

One of the students also live-streamed the attack on Facebook. Students were attacked with rods and sticks. Free Press Kashmir quoted Aaqib, an engineering student from Bhai Guru Das Institute of Engineering and Technology, as saying that some students from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar barged into his room and attacked him.

Shoaib, another student of the same college, said, “We were in our hostel rooms when we heard some noise from outside. We went to see what was happening and in another block saw some people attacking Kashmiri students. They had broken the window panes of the rooms and were constantly shouting 'You are Pakistani'." He said, "We locked ourselves in our rooms."

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"We were here watching the match. The UP people came in. We came here to study. We are also Indians. You can see what was done to us. Are we not Indians? So what does Modi say?" One of the Kashmiri students said, showing the damage done to a room.

Earlier, students shared videos showing broken chairs, overturned beds, and blows to their bodies in their hostel rooms. Videos are doing the rounds on social media.

Another student said, “The local Punjabis came to our rescue. They tried to save us from these attacks." Several other students told that they have spoken to the college administration and they have been assured that the matter will be taken seriously. Let us tell you that at least six Kashmiri students have been injured in this incident.

The only intervention of local Punjabi can help to stop the attack and Punjab Police and college officials are also involved and they have promised to take the matter seriously and take strict action against the perpetrators.

Indian team seen under pressure

Shaheen Afridi managed to get Kohli out from the first over in the 19th over. It was Kohli who sometimes took the Indian team to the score of 151 with the help of Suryakumar Yadav (11) and sometimes Rishabh Pant (39) and sometimes Ravindra Jadeja (13).

Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant shared a 53-run partnership.

Pakistan's team looked strong on every front in this match. In the first three overs, Shaheen Shah Afridi took two wickets and put India under pressure.

Captain Virat Kohli also accepted this in the press conference. He said that "we could not do what we wanted on the field and losing three wickets, in the beginning, makes it difficult to come back".

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The Indian team could not show great performance with the bat, but it was expected that it would definitely show some talent with the bowling as it had given place to three fast bowlers and two spinners in the playing-11.

On one hand, there were fast bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and Mohammed Shami and on the other, there were spinners in the form of Varun Chakravarthy and Ravindra Jadeja. But in comparison to the batsmen, the bowlers could not show anything amazing and could not take even a single wicket.

Captain Kohli got overs from four different bowlers in the first four overs, but he did not get any success in this.

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