Kashmiri student expelled in Ggm over online posts
GURUGRAM: A 19-year-old woman student from the state of Jammu and Kashmir was dismissed from a university in Gurugram on Tuesday, after she allegedly made a few posts on social media in connection to the February 14 Pulwama attack that left 40 CRPF personnel dead, police said. Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-emohammad (JEM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
The university has called the posts “anti-national” in the rustication order. However, no police case was filed in the matter.
The decision to dismiss Sadaf Rafiq Zaffar came within oneand-a-half hours after more than 500 students started protesting inside SGT University in Budhera, demanding her dismissal, said Rajneesh Yadav, public relations officer of the university. “The disciplinary committee met for 15 to 20 minutes after the protests began around 9am Tuesday and decided to dismiss the student,” Yadav said. The protest started from 9am and continued till 10.30am and there was no violence, Yadav said.
Zaffar, a second year student in the varsity’s undergraduate programme, was asked to leave the college hostel on Tuesday afternoon.
A university poster inside a college on the campus with Zaffar’s face on it was pulled down by the university staff during the protest. The poster was later burnt by the protesting group, as teachers and police watched.
“Students were angry and throwing stones at the girl’s poster. Faculty thought that someone may get injured in the stone pelting and asked a staff member to remove the poster,” the PRO said. He added that the protesting students snatched the poster and burnt it.
Officials at Budhera police post, which can be accessed from inside the university, said that they got a call about the protest around 8.30am Tuesday and that there was enough police deployment. In multiple videos of the protest shot by students and accessed by HT, the crowd can also be seen shouting anti-pakistan slogans.
When reached out to, Zaffar said she did not want to comment on the issue. But another student of Kashmiri descent said the matter escalated after Zaffar had an argument with her classmates last week.