Lahore , January 28: The Principal, Punjab University College of Information Technology, Dr Syed Mansoor Sarwar and faculty members have strongly condemned the IJT activists who attacked the final year students of the college with batons on Thursday afternoon, violating the peaceful atmosphere of the college and dignity of the Institute.

According to a press release issued here today, the principal chaired a hurriedly-called meeting of the faculty members here today, and passed a unanimous resolution to condemn the hooliganism of the IJT activists who manhandled the college students. The resolution maintained that at 3:30 on Thursday, the PUCIT final year students, as per past tradition, wearing identical shirts, had gathered within the college premises to take group photos of class fellows to mark the satisfactory completion of their final examination. All of a sudden, a group of 20 IJT activists appeared on the scene and started thrashing the graduating PUCIT students without any provocation, which resulted in injuries to two students who were provided first aid by the 1122 rescue officials. 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 to the PUCIT students as well as the faculty members.

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.