As many as 10 Kashmiri students have been suspended by various educational institutions and a few others booked for posting “anti-national comments” on social media.
On Tuesday, the administration of the SGT University of Gurgaon, Delhi, rusticated a Kashmiri girl student for her social media post on the Pulwama attack.
She was asked to leave the hostel immediately.
“I don’t like this incident but if you rape Kashmiri women, use pellet guns, kill innocent people and make Kashmiri children
blind with needles, what will you get?” she had written on Monday.
“This was not terrorist attack. This is returns of what you did with Kashmiri people. Use love not guns against Kashmir,” her post said.
Earlier, four Kashmiri students were suspended by the authorities at the National Institute of Medical Science (NIMS) for alleged “anti-national” comments.
Also, two students of SUS Engineering College, Tangori, were suspended for alleged “anti-national” posts on social media.
Three Kashmiri students have been booked by Surya Nagar Police in Bengaluru for posting alleged “anti-national and derogatory comments” on social media over Pulwama attack. They were pursuing a BSc nursing course from two colleges in Bengaluru city.
The detained have been identified as Haris Manzoor and Gowhar Mushtaq, both second year students of Spurthy College, while Zakir Maqbool is pursuing his course from Chinai College. He is enrolled in fourth year of the course.
A police official in Surya Nagar police station told Greater Kashmir that three Kashmiri students were detained by the police.
“All the three have been shifted to Central Jail of Bengaluru,” the police official said.
Mudasir Ahmad, brother of Haris, told Greater Kashmir over phone from Bengaluru that the matter has been taken up with the college authorities.
The students have been facing college action and police detention despite J&K government’s claims that it has appointed liaison officers in various states who were in touch with local administrations and college authorities in outside states to ensure the “students from J&K are not put to any inconvenience”.
Already more than 300 students have fled from Dehradun, Uttarakhand and Haryana after facing harassment and threats from local mob and rightwing groups like Bajrang Dal. Some students have shifted to Chandigarh. Sikh organisation Khalsa Aid is ferrying them home in its vehicles.
Also, the authorities in IIMT College of engineering, Greater Noida, suspended a Kashmiri student for posting an “anti-national” comment over Pulwama attack on social media.
The chief proctor of the college Sanjay Pachauri has also written to senior SSP concerned and demanded “exemplary and strict action” against the “culprit.”
Chief Proctor has stated that lshfaq Ahmad Khoja from Kupwara was suspended from college on February 16 after he posted “anti –national” comment on social media.
“On being asked he (Ishfaq) replied via Facebook that his ID has been hacked and was directed to lodge an FIR at local J&K police station. But he failed to comply with the direction,” reads the letter.
Amid threats and harassment faced by the Kashmiri students, authorities in two Dehradun colleges have already announced they would not be admitting Kashmiri students anymore in the institutes.
However the college authorities on Tuesday clarified that they were under pressure and no such decision was taken by their management.
“We had to do it under pressure from a mob of around 400-500 which was protesting at the gates demanding expulsion of Kashmiri students from the institute and an assurance in writing that the new ones will not be granted admission following the attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama,” Chairman of Alpine College of Management and Technology, Anil Saini, was quoted by PTI as having said.
“The administration gave in writing to the protesting mob for the safety of Kashmiri students,” he added.