11-15-2008, 10:54 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><span style='color:red'>Fight in college hostel over beef on menu</span>
15 Nov 2008, 0211 hrs IST, TNN
CHENNAI: A dispute over the type of meat served in a hostel sparked a clash among students of an engineering college under Hindustan University in Padur, about 35 km from Chennai, on Thursday night. Three students were injured. While two students suffered minor injuries, the condition of the third is serious.
The clash occurred around 10.30 pm at one of the university's six hostels that accommodates first-year male students. Almost half of the 4,250 university's students are from other states. There are also 100-odd foreign students.
<b>Stating that beef was served for dinner instead of chicken, students from northern states roughed up the hostel warden. A few from Tamil Nadu sided with him and a clash ensued between the two groups.</b> In the end, three local students, Murugan, Arumugam and Deva, were injured. While the first two had stitches on the head, Deva is in the ICU of a hospital.
<b>University authorities later informed the police who took 18 students, most of them from other states, into custody.</b> They were produced before a Chengalpet court on Friday.
Thirty policemen were deployed on the campus to prevent further violence. <b>"Severe action will be taken against students involved in violence," V Balasubramanian, deputy superintendent of police</b>, Mamallapuram, said.
The university has now declared an indefinite holiday for 1,200 first-year students of all branches and asked hostellers to vacate the premises. When questioned, they however denied any clash took place over food. A difference of opinion, they claimed, had led to a minor dispute that was later settled. "We declared an indefinite holiday in view of the fact that semester exams are likely to start in the middle of December," K Sarukesi, vice-chancellor, Hindustan University, said. Asked whether they had asked police to let off arrested students with a warning, he said: "Disciplinary action will be taken against erring students."
Students from the north insisted the crisis had reached a flashpoint owing to a lack of good facilities. "The fact is hostel authorities serve beef instead of other types of meat. We paid Rs 59,500 as annual fee as we were assured good accommodation and quality food. But the food is worse than that at roadside eateries," said a first-year student.
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Radha Rajan comments:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now it is TN Beefeaters' turn to attack North Indians in Tamil Nadu's Capital?
The Hindusthan College of Engineering, Chennai, has always attracted more students from outside the State than within, particularly since it offers courses most engineering colleges in India do not. "North Indians" pay more and complain less too â so far. But serving up beef for or as chicken to these Biharis and Jharkhandis is provocation of the type that started off the Indian War of Independence.
Note that the College Registrar is John Sahawyum Chellaiah, and the Joint MD of "the Group" is Ashok Verghese. Which may explain the provocation.
And we are informed that the Christians are behind the recent Law College riots in TN too.
And Maoists are also an Affiliate of Militant Christianity and not Communism as per what was claimed after Khandamal.
What the Government should do is to garrotte these provocateurs and the armed gangs of students they maintain on these campuses regardless of communal or Party Affiliations.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
15 Nov 2008, 0211 hrs IST, TNN
CHENNAI: A dispute over the type of meat served in a hostel sparked a clash among students of an engineering college under Hindustan University in Padur, about 35 km from Chennai, on Thursday night. Three students were injured. While two students suffered minor injuries, the condition of the third is serious.
The clash occurred around 10.30 pm at one of the university's six hostels that accommodates first-year male students. Almost half of the 4,250 university's students are from other states. There are also 100-odd foreign students.
<b>Stating that beef was served for dinner instead of chicken, students from northern states roughed up the hostel warden. A few from Tamil Nadu sided with him and a clash ensued between the two groups.</b> In the end, three local students, Murugan, Arumugam and Deva, were injured. While the first two had stitches on the head, Deva is in the ICU of a hospital.
<b>University authorities later informed the police who took 18 students, most of them from other states, into custody.</b> They were produced before a Chengalpet court on Friday.
Thirty policemen were deployed on the campus to prevent further violence. <b>"Severe action will be taken against students involved in violence," V Balasubramanian, deputy superintendent of police</b>, Mamallapuram, said.
The university has now declared an indefinite holiday for 1,200 first-year students of all branches and asked hostellers to vacate the premises. When questioned, they however denied any clash took place over food. A difference of opinion, they claimed, had led to a minor dispute that was later settled. "We declared an indefinite holiday in view of the fact that semester exams are likely to start in the middle of December," K Sarukesi, vice-chancellor, Hindustan University, said. Asked whether they had asked police to let off arrested students with a warning, he said: "Disciplinary action will be taken against erring students."
Students from the north insisted the crisis had reached a flashpoint owing to a lack of good facilities. "The fact is hostel authorities serve beef instead of other types of meat. We paid Rs 59,500 as annual fee as we were assured good accommodation and quality food. But the food is worse than that at roadside eateries," said a first-year student.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/article...8,prtpage-1.cms<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Radha Rajan comments:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Now it is TN Beefeaters' turn to attack North Indians in Tamil Nadu's Capital?
The Hindusthan College of Engineering, Chennai, has always attracted more students from outside the State than within, particularly since it offers courses most engineering colleges in India do not. "North Indians" pay more and complain less too â so far. But serving up beef for or as chicken to these Biharis and Jharkhandis is provocation of the type that started off the Indian War of Independence.
Note that the College Registrar is John Sahawyum Chellaiah, and the Joint MD of "the Group" is Ashok Verghese. Which may explain the provocation.
And we are informed that the Christians are behind the recent Law College riots in TN too.
And Maoists are also an Affiliate of Militant Christianity and not Communism as per what was claimed after Khandamal.
What the Government should do is to garrotte these provocateurs and the armed gangs of students they maintain on these campuses regardless of communal or Party Affiliations.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->