JAMMU: Expressing concern over the plight of girl students of NIT Srinagar who had been subjected to humiliation and given threats of rape and molestation by local goons, on Tuesday women students of the Jammu University filed a petition with the National Commission for Women demanding adequate arrangements for their safety and security.
The girl students belonging to different departments of the Jammu University in their joint petition to the Chairperson of National Commission for Women have also submitted copies of the media reports narrating horrifying and painful experiences shared by the Non-Local victim girls there at NIT Srinagar.
In the petition, the commission has been prayed to issue directions to the Union and State Governments to take appropriate measures to ensure safety of the non-local girl students and registration of FIRs against the local goons for their shameful conduct of giving rape and molestation threats.
The petitioners have also condemned the role of the college administration who have even denied permission to the non-local girl students even to go market to buy essential items of daily use for them and for their failure in taking any action against the students for their anti-national activities. The petition also demands immediate removal of Section 144 from the campus premises which was imposed by the local administration to curtain their free movement.
The petitioners have demanded intervention of the Women Commission to ensure that the non-local girl students do not stop their education fearing these threats. “The commission may also issue directions to the union ministry of Women and social justice to take cognizance of the matter and for taking further necessary action and to talk with the parents of these victim girls and so that their parents do not hesitate in allowing continuance of studies of these girls” ,the petition further reads.
They have also condemned the role of some faculty members of the college and submitted that the role of some faculty members there in the institution has also remained very suspicious and apprehensive, it is so sad they have not been able to provide a sense of safety and security to these young girls who facing all odds of their families travelled miles to get education there in this institution.
Moreover, these students have also alleged that many a times they are denied permissions by the college administration to celebrate their religious festivals whereas there is free for all for anti-national elements who raise anti-national slogans fearlessly and without any action being taken even a single student.
“Respected Chairperson, we as female can understand hope you to can feel the pain, agony and misery of these victim girls for whom their educational institution have virtually turned into a prison where they can neither wish to stay nor can afford to leave because of their future is at stake.
Instead of encouraging these non-local girl students who are on a mission of enlightening themselves with light of education for better future of the country, the goons have attacked physically their non-local male colleagues and mentally attacked these girls with rape threats”, prayed in the petition. The petition is jointly signed by Suchitra Singh Jamwal, Akriti Khajuria, Nistha Chadha, Preeti Sharma, Sapna, Arushi Anthal, Palak Sharma, Jasmeet Kour, Meenu Lamba and others.