Kashmiri student held for ‘anti-national’ post

SHIMLA: A Kashmiri student of a private university in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district was “rusticated” and later arrested for allegedly making anti-national remarks on social media, police said Sunday.

Tahseen Gul of Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar was arrested Saturday as he had made some “anti-national” remarks on photo-video sharing app Instagram, Baddi Superintendent of Police Rohit Malpani said.

He was studying at the Chitkara University in Solan district.

The student allegedly glorified suicide attacker Adil Ahmad Dar, who was behind the Pulwama terror attack last Thursday.

A case was registered on the basis of a complaint filed by the university administration, a police official said.

In the complaint, Dean Administration, Chitkara University, Col AK Chauhan (retired) alleged that Gul posted some anti-national remarks on social media “creating a tense situation” in the campus, the police official added.

The Baddi SP told PTI that the Kashmiri student was “rusticated” by the university and was further handed over to the police for legal action.

Subsequently, he was arrested and an FIR, under Section 153 B (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against him, he said.

Meanwhile, a college teacher was suspended in Assam’s Guwahati on Sunday for a Facebook post over the Pulwama.

In her post on Thursday, Papri Banerjee, who works as an Assistant Professor of the English department in Icon Academy Junior College, condemned the terrorist attack but also blamed the Indian Army for “atrocities” on civilians in Jammu and Kashmir.