Mokokchung, March 29 (MExN): The Eastern Nagaland Students’ Union of Mokokchung (ENSUM) and Eastern Nagaland Students’ Fellowship (ENSF-L) of Nagaland University, Lumami, today supported the Post Graduate Students’ Union (Lumami) and asked the Nagaland University authority to withdraw the FIR lodged against one student, Khanlon Konyak lodged at Akuluto Police Station.
On the night of March 24, 2011, NU student Khanlong Konyak drank a laboratory chemical “by mistake”. He was taken to the University Health Centre at Lumami, but on seeing the absence of the doctors and workers at the Health Centre, the students got incensed and vandalized the health centre. The Nagaland University authority reportedly lodged two FIRs with the police – one against the students’ union for vandalism and one against the student for “poisoning/attempted suicide”.
In this regard, the ENSUM president CM Enyü Phom and the ENSF-L convener Ating Konyak in a press release ‘clarified’ that “Khanlong Konyak, in any way, did not attempt to commit suicide nor had any such intention”.
Saying that the ingestion of Formaldehyde solution was accidental, the unions refuted and strongly condemned the allegation of ‘attempted suicide’ claimed by “PRO, In-Charge” of Nagaland University in the media on March 26.
“The press release regarding ‘attempted suicide’ as published is totally baseless and misleading. Moreover, on the 24th night Mr. Khanlong Konyak after medical attention was duly discharged from the Civil Hospital Mokokchung as per the doctor’s advice,” the release asserted.
In this connection, both the ENSF (L) and ENSU (M) expressed its support to the PGSU (L) in demanding the withdrawal of the FIR lodged against Khanlon Konyak by the Nagaland University Authority.
Moreover, “both the union as well as the fellowship” urged the university’s authorities in particular, not to victimize any student or aggravate the situation.
“Such self vested interest attitude on the part of the university authority targeting to hurt the sentiments of the people and to hamper the life of the concerned student is highly questionable and resented by the student community in general and the eastern students in particular,” the note stated.
On the night of March 24, 2011, NU student Khanlong Konyak drank a laboratory chemical “by mistake”. He was taken to the University Health Centre at Lumami, but on seeing the absence of the doctors and workers at the Health Centre, the students got incensed and vandalized the health centre. The Nagaland University authority reportedly lodged two FIRs with the police – one against the students’ union for vandalism and one against the student for “poisoning/attempted suicide”.
In this regard, the ENSUM president CM Enyü Phom and the ENSF-L convener Ating Konyak in a press release ‘clarified’ that “Khanlong Konyak, in any way, did not attempt to commit suicide nor had any such intention”.
Saying that the ingestion of Formaldehyde solution was accidental, the unions refuted and strongly condemned the allegation of ‘attempted suicide’ claimed by “PRO, In-Charge” of Nagaland University in the media on March 26.
“The press release regarding ‘attempted suicide’ as published is totally baseless and misleading. Moreover, on the 24th night Mr. Khanlong Konyak after medical attention was duly discharged from the Civil Hospital Mokokchung as per the doctor’s advice,” the release asserted.
In this connection, both the ENSF (L) and ENSU (M) expressed its support to the PGSU (L) in demanding the withdrawal of the FIR lodged against Khanlon Konyak by the Nagaland University Authority.
Moreover, “both the union as well as the fellowship” urged the university’s authorities in particular, not to victimize any student or aggravate the situation.
“Such self vested interest attitude on the part of the university authority targeting to hurt the sentiments of the people and to hamper the life of the concerned student is highly questionable and resented by the student community in general and the eastern students in particular,” the note stated.
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