After fight on HMV campus, college girl goes missing

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 16

A class XII student of HMV College here has reportedly gone missing for the past three days reportedly after a fight with some girls on the campus, two short videos of which went viral today.

While her family suspects it be a case of ragging, the college staff deny it outrightly. Cops from the police station Division No. 2 have begun the interrogation of the girls seen in the videos, but are further probing the matter. In these videos, the girl is seen seated as some other students have flocked around her.

An altercation goes on during which a bit of arm-twisting too happens. The 16-year-old, who was earlier a student of Government Senior Secondary School, Nehru Garden, was new to the college as she had taken admission just about three days ago. Her father Yashpal, who works as a private accountant, said that he had gone to Beas to attend satsang on Saturday morning. “My daughter had told me that she will attend the college and later join us there with my sister. We kept waiting for her at Beas, but she did not turn up. Since the cell phones do not work there, there remained a communication problem too.

Also my daughter does not have a phone. She did not reach my brother’s or sister’s place as per the plan and we really got worried by the evening.” He went on, “We came back, checked home and at other places and then went to the college around 11 pm. We contacted the gate-keeper who even put us to warden, but we were told that she was not on the campus. We continued hunting for her even on Sunday, at bus stand, railway station, temples and even went back to Beas to again re-check for her, but in vain.” The missing girl’s elder sister, who too is a postgraduate student on the campus, said, “When I went to the college on Monday, I went around meeting some girls of class XII, asking them about my sister. A girl showed me her video of fight put up by someone on the Snapchat mobile application.” The girl’s family members said, “It was this video that made us suspect that it could be a case of ragging. We inquired the matter and found that some senior girls were also involved in the fight. We then contacted the college authorities and the police and demanded a thorough inquiry.”

Principal HMV College Ajay Sareen said, “It is in no case an incident of ragging. The girls in the video are her classmates. They, of course, had a fight with one another.” The college authorities maintained: “We have shown the CCTV footage of the girl leaving the campus at 12:41 pm on Saturday.”Her father says, “They did show us video, but it was not that clear.” SHO Division No. 2 Gagandeep Singh said, “We have registered a case under Section 346, 323, 504 and 506  against unknown persons. We are using various means to trace the missing girl.”