150 QAU students booked for ‘taking police, varsity officials hostage’

Published November 16, 2024 Updated November 16, 2024 01:49pm
A file photo of Quaid-i-Azam University. — Creative commons/File
A file photo of Quaid-i-Azam University. — Creative commons/File

ISLAMABAD: The capital police have registered a case against 150 students of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) for making police and university officials hostage, police said on Friday.

According to the FIR, on Nov 4, at about 10pm, the manager received a call from a student Asad Turi, who informed him that he had made hostage a few police officials, who were checking students near the cafeteria.

He asked him to immediately come to the university and ask the police high-ups why the police officials have been sent to the university to check the students.

The manager immediately called Ansar Mehmood, the security officer on duty, to rush to the site to resolve the issue.

A few minutes later, he was informed by university security control room operator that the security officer has also been made hostage by the students.

The managers along with Director Students’ Affairs, Dr Amanat Ali, immediately rushed towards university to prevent students from resorting to violence.

When they reached the university, approximately 150 students were present near the cafeteria under the leadership of Asad Turi.

The manager tried to negotiate with the students however, Asad Turi, Sulman Marwat, along with 150 students made them hostage.

Asad Turi and Sulman Marwat delivered speeches full of hatred against the university administration, Islamabad police and Islamabad administration, inciting the gathering to maltreat the manager and Dr Amanat Ali.

Asad Turi along with Sulman Marwat, humiliated them in front of the gathering of students and recorded videos against their will. Asad Turi kept them under forced captivity for more than two hours and demanded their resignation.

He also incited the crowd to chant anti-establishment, antipolice and anti-administration slogans.

Meanwhile, few students from other communities rescued them.

Asad Turi and Sulman Marwat along with 150 students committed a crime by making them hostage and keeping us under captivity for more than two hours, humiliating them publicly, delivering hate speeches, maltreating and mentally torturing and making videos against their will.

The case was registered with Secretariat police under sections 341 (Punishment for wrongful restraint), 342 (Punishment for wrongful confinement), 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) and 186 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) in response of a complaint lodged by a campus manager of QAU.

Published in Dawn, November 16th, 2024

Opinion

Editorial

Agriculture tax
Updated 16 Nov, 2024

Agriculture tax

Amendments made in Punjab's agri income tax law are crucial to make the system equitable.
Genocidal violence
16 Nov, 2024

Genocidal violence

A RECENTLY released UN report confirms what many around the world already know: that Israel has been using genocidal...
Breathless Punjab
16 Nov, 2024

Breathless Punjab

PUNJAB’s smog crisis has effectively spiralled out of control, with air quality readings shattering all past...
Last call
Updated 15 Nov, 2024

Last call

PTI should hardly be turning its "final" protest into a "do or die" occasion.
Mini budget talk
15 Nov, 2024

Mini budget talk

NO matter how much Pakistan’s finance managers try to downplay the prospect of a ‘mini budget’ to pull off a...
Diabetes challenge
15 Nov, 2024

Diabetes challenge

AMONGST the many public health challenges confronting Pakistan, diabetes arguably does not get the attention it...