LAHORE: The Punjab School (PU) administration on Friday served the first instalment of show-cause notices on 32 faculty college students of the varsity allegedly involved in present clashes between Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) and the Pukhtun Council.
School college students Affairs Director and disciplinary committee Secretary Shahid Mehmood Gull despatched the notices with an in depth charge-sheet to residential addresses of the students along with prisons the place they've been being held after an Anti-Terrorism Courtroom docket (ATC) despatched them on bodily and judicial remand.
An ATC handed over 13 faculty college students to police on a seven-day bodily remand and 183 others to jail on a 14-day judicial remand for his or her alleged involvement in clashes inside the PU on Monday and Tuesday. Nonetheless, not your complete 196 arrested faculty college students belonged to the PU.
The show-cause notices accessible with Dawn talked about that the students had been charged with disrupting the honour, standing and dignity of the faculty by way of the clashes that occurred on Monday and Tuesday among the many many activists of IJT and Pukhtun Council. Completely different charges included creating chaos on campus, setting ablaze and damaging faculty installments at Electrical Engineering Division of the varsity, and making a means of fear amongst girl faculty college students.
The students who've been served with notices inside the lock-ups have been enrolled in Division of Gender Analysis, Institute of Communication Analysis, Institute of Social and Cultural Analysis, Division of Political Science, Institute of Coaching and Evaluation, Laws College, Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre, Institute of Chemical Engineering and Know-how, Division of Physics, Institute of Enterprise Administration, Division of Home Science, Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Institute of Geology and Hailey College of Commerce to name a lot of.
The students have been directed to submit their written defence inside three days through their heads of departments concerned. The disciplinary committee would moreover go to the suspended faculty college students in prisons to doc their statements.
As a result of the clashes erupted on Monday, larger than 225 faculty college students had been arrested by police from hostels and four circumstances beneath terrorism charges registered in opposition to them at Muslim Metropolis police station.
The students have been charged with destroying faculty property and damaging vehicles, along with two police mobiles and 5 bikes, by way of the clashes that erupted between the IJT and Pakhtun along with Baloch pupil unions on Monday.
The PU spokesman talked about they've been ending all approved formalities to take movement in opposition to the miscreants. He talked about the students have been being given an opportunity to indicate their innocence and circumstances have been quashed in opposition to these which were found not accountable by the disciplinary committee.
Shahid Gull instructed Dawn that this was the first instalment of show-cause notices despatched to varsity college students. That that they had acquired info of the 196 faculty college students arrested, nevertheless officers will go to the lock-ups and guarantee how a lot of the arrested have been PU faculty college students, after which ship the second instalment of notices.
Printed in Dawn, January 27th, 2018