SP College students clash with police in Srinagar

Tribune News Service

Srinagar, April 24  

As colleges and universities opened on Monday after a week in the Kashmir Valley, students of Sri Pratap Higher Secondary College (SP College) clashed with the police and resorted to stone pelting, officials said.

Tension broke out after a group of students assembled on the Maulana Azad Road and started pelting stones on security forces, causing blockade of one of the busiest roads in Srinagar. 

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The officials said the police tried to prevent the students from blocking the road.

Sporadic clashes continued as security forces tried to restore traffic on the highway.

The classes in all the colleges across the Valley were suspended on Tuesday following widespread student demonstrations a day earlier against the alleged high-handedness of security forces against the students of Degree College, Pulwama, on April 15.

Students of many of these institutions held protests demonstrations on Monday and clashed with the security forces, leaving several dozen students injured.

Following the clashes, the Divisional Administration had issued orders for closure of Kashmir University, all colleges and higher secondary schools across the Valley for a day on Tuesday.

The suspension of teaching work in the colleges was then extended first by a day, then two days and then by another day on the weekend as a precautionary measure. With inputs from agencies