Mehbooba seeks PM Modi’s intervention for release of Kashmiri students arrested for celebrating Pakistan’s win over India
Mehbooba wrote a letter to the PM urging him to intervene so that the future of these “young bright minds is not destroyed”.
Mehbooba wrote a letter to the PM urging him to intervene so that the future of these “young bright minds is not destroyed”.
Former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have demanded the immediate release of these students who have been taken into custody by the police in Agra.
The complaint was registered against three students of an engineering college in Agra for allegedly "shouting pro-Pakistan slogans after India's loss to the neighbouring country in a recently held T-20 World Cup match.
The students are currently accommodated in a private school in Gandhinagar locality of state capital Bhopal.
According to Kashmiri students, Governor Satya Pal Malik has no sympathy for them and the sanction of Rs 1 lakh and an Eid invite is to buy their consent for the undemocratic means adopted by the Indian government.
The petitioner, Tariq Adeeb, had sought from the apex court directions to authorities concerned to take action to stop assaults on students from Kashmir taking place at different educational institutions across the country.
The petition has sought direction to the Centre for taking steps to prevent "threats, assaults, violent attacks, social boycotts, ostracism, evictions and other coercive acts" committed by groups and mobs against "Kashmiris and other minorities".
After expressing satisfaction over the safety arrangements for Kashmiri students in Dehradun, a delegation of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) added high drama by arranging buses to take about 200 students to J-K.
The students detained on Saturday were placed under arrest after investigation; their Facebook posts glorified Pulwama attack
The CRPF on Sunday shot down reports claiming that Kashmiri students are facing harassment in some parts of India following the dastardly Pulwama terror attack which left over 40 of its personnel dead.
