Threatened, harassed by ‘radical groups’, students head to shelter home set up by J&K group in Landran

Chandigarh | Sunday | 17th February, 2019

Summary:

AdvertisingThe Jammu and Kashmir Students Organisation (JKSO) prepared a shelter home (a cluster of rented flats where Kashmiri students live) in Landran to accommodate students from Uttarakhand and other regions. JKSO president Khwaja Itrat told The Indian Express, “We received information from Kashmiri students studying in Dehradun that some radical outfits had threatened them. Two days after the Pulwama attack, several Kashmiri students who were allegedly harassed and threatened by radical groups in Dehradun were on their way to Landran in Punjab’s Mohali district Saturday. AdvertisingAbid Hussain, a student currently in Dehradun told The Indian Express, “We have locked ourselves in our rooms. But there are hundreds of Kashmiri students stranded there,” he told this newspaper..