Student held for social media posts

  • | Monday | 18th February, 2019

SHIMLA: A Kashmiri student pursuing engineering at Chitkara University in Baddi area of Solan district was arrested by Baddi police on Saturday for his posts on social media for empathising with terrorist Adil Ahmad Dar, who was responsible for Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were martyred. On January 5, he had supposedly showed solidarity after the killing of terrorist Shakur Dar. University has also suspended him.This was not the first time Gul had shown sympathy towards terrorists. On the complaint of university authorities, the police registered a case against him under Section 153B of IPC (imputation, assertions prejudicial to national-integration). The police on Sunday presented him in the court at Kasauli from where he was sent to judicial custody till February 28.The accused, identified as Tahsin Gul, is a resident of Harwan in Jammu and Kashmir and a second-year BTech student at Chitkara University.

SHIMLA: A Kashmiri student pursuing engineering at Chitkara University in Baddi area of Solan district was arrested by Baddi police on Saturday for his posts on social media for empathising with terrorist Adil Ahmad Dar, who was responsible for Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were martyred. The police on Sunday presented him in the court at Kasauli from where he was sent to judicial custody till February 28.The accused, identified as Tahsin Gul, is a resident of Harwan in Jammu and Kashmir and a second-year BTech student at Chitkara University. Following Pulwama terror attack, he had posted the picture of Dar along with comments that expressed solidarity with him.The matter first came to the notice of the university authorities, as some students took screenshots of the post. On the complaint of university authorities, the police registered a case against him under Section 153B of IPC (imputation, assertions prejudicial to national-integration). University has also suspended him.This was not the first time Gul had shown sympathy towards terrorists. On January 5, he had supposedly showed solidarity after the killing of terrorist Shakur Dar.

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