Mangaluru, Aug 28: A Muslim boy and a Hindu girl pursuing pre university course at a government college on the outskirts of the city have been suspended by the principal on the charge of being friends and helping each other despite belonging to different communities!
The principal of the pre-university college in communally sensitive town of Sullia in the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada on Thursday decided to place the second year boy and the first year girl under suspension for two weeks as per the demand of the activists of Akhil Bhartiya Vidya Parishad (ABVP), the students’ wing of the country’s ruling party.
It is learnt that a group of students, allegedly belonging to ABVP, had recently threatened the boy and the girl for being friendly with each other and also had submitted a petition to the principal seeking suspension of the Muslim boy.
When they were enquired, both the boy and the girl reportedly replied the principal that their friendship never crossed the limits. “He never misbehaved with me. But, many of the students who are demanding his suspension had misbehaved with me for being friendly with him,” she told the principal.
However, on Wednesday, a group of students manhandled the boy and locked him up in a class room after he reportedly accompanied the same girl to a cyber cafe. After confining the boy, the alleged activists of ABVP started protesting on the campus demanding his immediate suspension.
The police had to intervene and send away the students. Students boycotted classes and continued the protests on Thursday. Finally, the principal yielded to the pressure and asked both the students not to come to the college for next two weeks even though the demand of the agitators was only the suspension of Muslim boy.
The principal defended the college’s action saying they had no choice. “We had to do this to bring the situation under control. The protesting students had disrupted functioning of the college for the last few days,” the principal said.
The principal said the Muslim boy, targeted by the protesters was a local resident, while the girl hailed from neighbouring Kasaragod district. The girl was staying in her relative’s house in Sullia, before moving to a hostel two weeks ago.
Though there was no evidence to show that the two were in relationship, the principal said an internal inquiry revealed SMS exchanges between them.
The principal said the parents of the boy and girl came to the college on Thursday. After hearing about the incident, the girl’s mother left along with her daughter to Kasaragod. The boy was also taken away by his parents.
It could be recalled here that two girls perusing BBM were placed under suspension at a college in Subramanya town in Dakshina Kannada district as per the demand of Sangh Parivar activists after the girls were seen in a photograph from a party they attended two years ago. The girls were seen sitting near liquor bottles in the photo which was widely circulated by the miscreants on social media.
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