The clash occurred after the locals allegedly called Kashmiri students "stone pelters" and taunted them over a video showing CRPF personnel being heckled and assaulted in the Kashmir valley. "The Police have taken prompt action and apprehended the culprits".
Earlier in the morning, he had tweeted: "The Kashmiri youths also contribute (to) the progress of India".
In Uttar Pradesh, banners calling for boycott of Kashmiris and asking them to leave have come up in Meerut district along the Delhi-Dehradun highway.
Singh told ANI, "Last evening I got to know that some Kashmiri youth have been mistreated. Kashmiris leave UP or." a hoarding, which carried the name of the outfit's chief Amit Jani, warned. This is despite the fact that Kashmiris have braved all sorts of brutalities in their just struggle for right to self-determination, which was pledged not only by the United Nations but also the then Indian leadership. No one was seriously injured in the incident.
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Following the incident, Gangrar police station had registered a case against the unidentified accused for voluntarily causing hurt and wrongful confinement.
Kashmiris are being picked on in the heartland - both states where the incidents took place are ruled by the BJP - at a time the situation has steadily deteriorated and turned explosive in the Valley. The attacks seemed coordinated. "They are part of the family", he stated. "They told us to go back to Kashmir and threatened that they won't let us study here", Bahar Ahmed Giri, a student of pharmacy, was quoted by HT as saying.
Hurriyat Conference on Saturday expressed "serious concern" over the harassment and intimidation of Kashmir students studying in various colleges and universities of UP, Haryana and Rajasthan by the Hindu extremists. "They have been arrested under IPC section 151 (unlawful assembly) and investigation is underway under IPC section 341 (wrongful restraint) and section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt)".
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