AMUs Kashmiri student booked for hailing Pulwama attack on Twitter

  • | Friday | 15th February, 2019

Agra: A Kashmiri student of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), identified as Basim Hilal, was booked by the district police on Friday for hailing the Pulwama attack that claimed lives of at least 40 CRPF jawans, in a tweet. He was also suspended from the university pending an inquiry.In a tweet, Hilal, who is pursuing BSc in mathematics, wrote, “How’s the Jaish? It had tarnished the image of the university and created disharmony in its peaceful academic atmosphere. Great Sir” and used the hashtags ‘Kashmir’ and ‘Pulwama’. He was also barred from entering the campus.Varsity’s spokesperson Shafey Kidwai said, “It’s highly objectionable that such a post was put on the social media against our martyred soldiers.

Agra: A Kashmiri student of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), identified as Basim Hilal, was booked by the district police on Friday for hailing the Pulwama attack that claimed lives of at least 40 CRPF jawans, in a tweet. He was also suspended from the university pending an inquiry.In a tweet, Hilal, who is pursuing BSc in mathematics, wrote, “How’s the Jaish? Great Sir” and used the hashtags ‘Kashmir’ and ‘Pulwama’. Hilal was apparently referring to a dialogue from the recent Bollywood film Uri, which is based on the Army’s 2016 surgical strikes in Pakistan.The tweet was, however, not available later as Hilal presumably deactivated his account.The student was immediately suspended by the university for committing acts of “indiscipline and misconduct”. He was also barred from entering the campus.Varsity’s spokesperson Shafey Kidwai said, “It’s highly objectionable that such a post was put on the social media against our martyred soldiers. It had tarnished the image of the university and created disharmony in its peaceful academic atmosphere. We have zero tolerance towards it.”The varsity faculty condemned the cowardly and heinous act carried out against CRPF personnel in Pulwama while the students observed a two-minute silence after offering their Friday prayers.Hilal, who hails from Beerwah town of J&K, had joined Twitter in 2017 June and has 134 followers. He displayed the Pakistani flag as his header picture.Aligarh senior superintendent of police Akash Kulhari said that Hilal was booked under IPC’s section 153A (promoting enmity between two different religions) and also section 67 (for publishing or transmitting obscene material in electronic form) of the Information Technology Act on the basis of a complaint filed by police media cell incharge, Govind Ballabh Sharma.In September 2016, a Kashmiri student, Mudassar Yusuf, was expelled from the university for posting “objectionable” comments on Facebook after a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri.

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