College chairman gets thrashed

College chairman gets thrashed

Evicting tenants with the help of goondas is no big deal in namma Bengaluru. Even when the tenant in question is a college chairman. And even when the future of a few hundred students is at stake.

On March 31, a 15-strong group of goons led by the building owner of Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad (MAKA) degree college confronted the chairman of the college, Sikandar Khan, demanding that he vacate the building immediately. When he refused to do so on the grounds that he had taken the building on lease and the lease period had not expired, he was roundly thrashed by the goons.

In a complaint lodged with the police, Sikandar Khan stated that he had taken the building on lease for 17 years to run the college which offers degree courses B.Com, BBM and BCA. The lease period is yet to end but the owner wanted the building back as he intended to start a nursing college.

"My students are preparing for their exams. The owner is also refusing to return the remaining amount of the lease. So how can I vacate the building?" asks Khan.

There are more than 100 students in the college rolls and all of them are taking up their exams next month. Caught in this controversy, their fate now hangs in the balance. It's a tension they can definitely do without, when they are busy burning midnight oil for their exams.

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