Jaipur: Four Kashmiri students of Mewar University in Rajasthan have been allegedly beaten up by fellow students over rumours they cooked beef in their hostel and were later placed under preventive arrest by local police.
SP Chittorgarh Prasanna Kumar told CNN-IBN they were arrested Tuesday after they resisted questioning and on a complaint that the four attacked mediapersons and damaged their equipment.
The students -- Shakib Ashraf, Hilal Farukh, Mohammad Makbool and Shaukat Ali, aged between 21 to 27 years -- were let off a day later.
The arrests came a day after the four students were allegedly manhandled by some others students after rumours spread they cooked beef in their hostel room. SP Kumar said prima facie it appeared the meat was not beef, but a sample was sent to a forensic lab for testing.
Police rushed to the site after some students as well as locals assembled in front of University and raised slogans demanding action against them.
Officials at the university said scuffles ensued after the students cooked meat at a hostel which is vegetarian by policy." Cooking meat is against our policy.Police are investigating the case and during the initial probe, it was clear that the substance was not beef," said university PRO Harish Gurnani.
After news of the arrests broke, former Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah requested Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje to intervene in the matter.
"How can rumours form the basis for arrests? No due process," Abdullah tweeted
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