MANSEH RA: The court of district and sessions judge here has summoned DIG Hazara, district police of ficer and deputy commissioner, Mansehra, to appear on Tuesday after director administration of Hazara University moved the court for registration of an FIR against them under Section 22-A of PPC to clarify the situation arising out after the murder of two students.

The director administration, Shireen Zaman, claimed in his application that the district administration, police and DIG Hazara had threatened the vice-chancellor and registrar of arrest. However, the police termed the allegation baseless and an attempt by the HU administration to avoid wrath of an inquiry launched by the Higher Education Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, against the VC and other of ficers.

Mr Zaman moved the application to the district judge, Mansehra, saying that on Nov 2 when a student, Suleman, was killed outside the varsity premises at a snooker club and the students were protesting the VC and his other staf f managed to convince their leaders to end their protest at the Karakoram Highway, but in the meantime police started crackdown and severely tortured them.

He pleaded that as high-ups of police and district administration threatened the VC and registrar of arresting them at a guesthouse inside the main campus and misbehaved with them the police should be ordered to lodge an FIR against the DPO, DC, Mansehra, DIG and their subordinates.

Mr Zaman stated that he had also contacted the police for registration of FIR against these officers, but they refused.

He said that many students were still in jail.

Also in the day, Mansehra DPO Ahsan Saifullah told mediapersons that all allegations levelled by the HU director administration against the police and district administration were baseless.

`The students who torched at least 15 vehicles and blocked KKH for hours cannot be treated as innocent and when police resorted to baton charge to disperse them in the night some of them may have received minor injuries,` he said.

He said that it was police and the district administration which arrested the suspect in the murder case of the student and restored peace.

`The Higher Education Department, KP, has launched a sort of inquiry against the VC and registrar and whatever is being done by them is to avoid it,` he said.