Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 12: Aligarh Muslim University has suspended three Kashmiri students for allegedly trying to hold a prayer meeting for a militant who was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, sources reported on Friday. Mannan Bashir Wani, a scholar at the Aligarh Muslim University who joined militancy in January, was among two Hizbul Mujahideen militants killed in the encounter in Handwara town. After the news of Wani's death reached the institute on Thursday, the Kashmiri students used social media to give a call to other students from the state to meet near the university's library, report said. As they gathered to hold funeral prayers, university staff and student union leaders tried to stop them, leading to a heated exchange, the university's spokesperson Professor Shafey Kidwai said. |