UDAIPUR: A Kashmiri student, who allegedly posted "anti-national" comments on Facebook after the Uri attack, has been booked on sedition charges.
His comments had sparked protest by ABVP activists in the city yesterday, prompting the college administration to suspend him for seven days.
"A case against the accused student Mudasir Rashid was registered last night under section 124 A (sedition)," police said.
The matter is under investigation and Rashid, a Srinagar resident, has not been arrested so far, they said.
Rashid who is studying engineering at a private college here, was detained yesterday after the institute director R S Vyas lodged the FIR against him.
Kashmiri students thrashed in Haryana College
Meanwhile, many Kashmiri students studying outside state were thrashed and intimidated by goons in Haryana. The incident occurred at Ganga Institute of Technology and Management located in Kablana Jhajjar area of North India state Haryana.
“Ever since the uprising in Valley, the Indian students even the staff of the college label us as terrorists and always find excuses to harass and intimidate them,” a group of Kashmiri students said.
They said during an argument, some students mostly from Bihar labelled them as terrorists. “The irony is that the security guards of the college backed them in these acts. Without listening to the version of Kashmiri students, the Warden acted like a goon and beat us again,” they said.
The Kashmiri students added that another student was roughed up in the mess of the college and he suffered eye injuries.
Thrashing of Kashmiri students outside state colleges is a common phenomenon and in past many students were either beaten up or expelled from the colleges and universities for exhibiting ‘anti-national’ behaviour. The incidents including physical violence and intimidation of Kashmiri students continued even though Indian Home Rajnath Singh recently during his Kashmir had assured that Government of India will set a help line for Kashmiri students to ensure that no student faces harassment
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