4 Kashmiri students fear for their life

New Delhi, April 22 :  In India, a Kashmiri student of Barkatullah University has said that he and his three colleagues face a threat to their life after filing of a police complaint against a head of the department on his poor semester marks without any proper reason and ragging of some students to them," Yousuf said.
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Mohammad Yousuf Parra, a post-graduate commerce student, said that the chief warden of Jawahar Lal boys' hostel in BU in Bhopal has threatened to kill me if I don't withdraw my complaints against the HoD and some students."

According to Yousuf, Dr SK Khateek, who is head of the commerce department of the University Teaching Department, is unhappy with him over his filing of two complaints. "I lodged a complaint with the Vice Chancellor about my and three other Kashmiri students' ragging. There was another complaint against the HoD about his poor semester marks without any proper reason," Yousuf said.

"I am scared. I came to Barkatullah University  in Bhopal  with some aspirations and now people here are calling me 'terrorist'. I don't know what will happen next day," Yousuf said in an anxious manner.

He added the situation became serious when he made a complaint against Dr Khateek to the university authorities on March 29, earlier this year.

Yousuf said after the complaint, the vice-chancellor's office gave a letter to the chief warden seeking explanation.

Yousuf then lodged a complaint with the Bagh Sewania police station on April 20 wherein he had stated that Dr Khateek has been threatening him. "He has threatened me with dire consequences if I keep pursuing the complaint. I am also being threatened by unknown persons in the camps hostel," Yousuf stated in the complaint.