Srinagar, Apr 26: The students of Islamic University of Sciences and Technology (IUST) Awantipora on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against the alleged high-handedness of the government forces.
The protesting students, who assembled on the varsity campus, said gunshots they heard triggered panic and that they went out of their class rooms to see what was happening.
They alleged that the government forces fired several tear-gas shells inside the campus, which caused suffocation.
Demanding action against the government forces, they said tear-gas was fired inside the campus “without any provocation”.
However, the police said that the students hurled stones at the army-men fixing telephone lines outside the varsity. The army-men, an official said, “fired few rounds in the air to chase away the stone-throwing youth.”
But varsity officials refuted these reports that the students pelted the forces with stones.
