It’s AMU again, 1200 Kashmiri Students Threaten to Leave University
   15-Oct-2018

 
 
The story of sedition saga in Aligarh Muslims University is never ending. AMU students never disappoint anti-India campaigns. This time it’s all about Manan Wani. On 12th October 3 Kashmiri students of AMU were booked on sedition charges for allegedly for raising "anti-India" slogans and trying to hold a prayer meeting for Hizbul Mujahideen commander Manan Bashir Wani.
 
Now Kashmiri students studying at the AMU have threatened to leave for their homes on October 17, if the sedition charges against 3 of them are not dropped.
 

 
Aligarh police had taken the action on October 12 after a video surfaced, showing the three Kashmiri students raising "anti-India" slogans. Police had filed an FIR against Wasim Malik, Abdul Mir and one unnamed person. They have been identified on the basis of a video recording.
 
AMU had also issued show cause notices to nine students for trying to hold an unauthorised gathering Thursday. Later a three-member inquiry committee has been set up to probe the incident. The three students were suspended from the AMU earlier.
 
In a letter to AMU vice-chancellor, AMU students’ union former vice-president and Kashmiri Sajjad Rathar said, "If this vilification does not stop, more than 1,200 Kashmiri students will leave for their homes in the Kashmir Valley on October 17 as a last option."
 
Terming the slapping of sedition charges as "vendetta", Mr Rathar wrote, "The option of holding Namaaz-e-Janaza (prayer meeting) in absentia was dropped after the AMU authorities did not give the permission.".
 

 
 
"If no prayer meeting was held as confirmed by all official agencies, the slapping a case of sedition against three Kashmiri students is simply a vendetta, harassment and denial of justice," he said.
 
The letter was handed over to AMU Proctor Mohsin Khan in presence of large number of Kashmiri students at his office on Saturday night.
 
AMU spokesman Shafay Kidwai, however, denied the Kashmiri students' charges of harassment and stressed that "no innocent would be framed". Prof Kidwai also made it clear that "there is zero tolerance for any anti-national activity on AMU campus".
 
Before joining Hizbul Mujahideen ranks 27 years old Manan Wani, was pursing a PhD course in Allied Geology at the AMU. Manan was killed in an encounter at Shatgund village in Handwara area of north Kashmir's Kupwara district on Thursday.
 

 
 
Aligarh Muslim University has made it clear that it has a zero tolerance policy for any act which could even remotely be described as anti-national.