Activists of Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT) on Thursday once again exhibited hooliganism and allegedly thrashed final year students of Punjab University College of Information Technology (PUCIT).

A PU press release said the final year students, as per past tradition were wearing identical shirts and had gathered within the college premises to take group photos of class fellows to mark the satisfactory completion of their final examination when a group of 20 IJT activists arrived and started thrashing them without any provocation.

“This resulted in injuries to two students who were provided first aid by the 1122 rescue officials”, the release added.

However, on the intervention of the Principal and college faculty and staff members, the IJT activists ran away from the scene. About half an hour later, they again appeared along with their 30 accomplices’ in-front of the locked college gate and started hurling abuses on the PUCIT students as well as the faculty members.

After the incident, PUCIT Principal Dr Syed Mansoor Sarwar chaired a hurriedly-called meeting of the faculty members which passed a unanimous resolution to condemn the hooliganism of the IJT activists who manhandled the college students.

The resolution further stated that the college administration will not tolerate recurrence of any such incident of hooliganism on the part of IJT activists. The entire college faculty and administration is firmly resolved to maintain peace and order at the college premises with a view to establish the writ of the University Administration.

The meeting also made an appeal to the Chief Minister, Punjab and the Provincial Education Minister to take a serious notice of the incident of IJT hooliganism and take suitable remedial measures to eliminate the miscreants for the preservation of peace and sanctity of the educational institutions.

However, IJT spokesman Haris Saeed said Jamiat had nothing to do with the PUCIT incident. He said PU administration was wrongly implicating IJT. He further said the incident was in fact a fight between students of PUCIT and Govt Islamia College Civil Lines. “As Civil Lines is one of Jamiat’s strongholds the PU administration is now involving Jamiat in the incident”, he added. Interestingly, Government Islamia College Civil Lines Nazim Numair Aslam denied involvement of the college students in the incident. He said on Thursday fight there was in fact a fight among students of the PUCIT.

PUCIT Principal Dr Syed Mansoor Sarwar talking to The News insisted that Jamiat was involved in beating the innocent students of his college. He also regretted that despite repeated calls on 15 police did not show up.