Wild video showing how Indian students beat Nigerians at GD Goenka University emerges

There was confusion at the GD Goenka University in Gurgaon after 50 to 60 Nigerian students left the campus of the school "temporarily" following hostile treatment and threats by Indian students.

The police department in Gurgaon said the confusion began when the groups of students went at each other on the school campus on Friday, October 14, creating a scene.

According to Indian Express, an online portal in India, officials from the Nigerian Embassy visited the university on Saturday night and enquired about the incident.

This latest incident comes barely a month after protests by Indian students against foreign students who allegedly offered namaz (Islamic worship or prayer) at the football ground. The disgruntled locals filed a complaint with the school authorities, asking the foreign students to offer namaz in allotted rooms.

The issue was reported to have been solved amicably until the viral video showed protests and shouting.

Indian Express reports that a student alleged he was beaten by more than 15 foreign nationals. In another video, security guards and students are seen on the football field.

One of the FIRs in the recent incident has been registered on the complaint of a pharmacy student named Sultan Khan. The FIR reads, “Around 5.40 pm, I was roaming around campus when 4-5 Nigerian students came and started hurling abuses at me and beat me up… My friends… came to save me but the Nigerian students also thrashed them with rods and sticks… While leaving, they threatened to kill me and my friends.”

The second FIR has been lodged on the complaint of a foreign student named Rabiu Md, who alleged the Indian students attacked him and other foreign students inside the hostel and on the football field. “The… local people came to GD Goenka University hostel with different weapons and started attacking international students… Some of us ran out of college while some are trapped inside the hostel. They can’t go out because they are afraid for their life… many international students were injured yesterday by the same local Indians in the football field,” reads the FIR.

Rabiu, a student who spoke to the Indian Express alleged that around 60 students left the college campus and are now in Delhi.

His friend Khalil alleged, “The locals have been harassing us for a long time at the campus. They hurl abuses and harass us. They beat up some of my friends inside their hostel room for no reason. At the football field, they attacked us while we were playing. I asked them to leave but they ganged up and thrashed us. We are now in Delhi and have asked the embassy officials to help us.”

Police said cases have been registered under sections of causing hurt and criminal intimidation. DCP (South) Upasna said, “There was a football match between the students and a group of boys got into an argument. They beat each other up. We have taken their complaints and the administration said they are resolving the issue. The matter is not related to the namaz issue.”

The university administration also said the matter was not communal and around 10 students have been suspended for misconduct. “There was a football match being played between two teams and they got into a brawl during the game over substitute players, which was sorted out with the intervention of university officials. There’s no relation to the protest that took place last month,” said Dr Dhirendra Singh Parihar, registrar at the University.



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