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| Gujarat madrassas to bar Kashmiris | | | B L KAK
NEW DELHI, OCT. 1: The 80-odd madrassas in the BJP-ruled Gujarat State are contemplating ban on admission to Kashmiri students from the next academic session. This, according to intelligence inputs, follows what is termed as "frequent police harassment".
The seminaries have been under the scanner after some ex-students hauled up for terrorist activities since the bloody post-Godhra riots in 2002, were allegedly found to have links with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants. Policemen have time and again raided the madrassas and picked up Kashmiri boys for questioning that has often led to "vital" clues, intelligence reports point out.
Of the 50,000 madrasa students, 700 are Kashmiris. The Gujarat madrassa federation students will hold a meeting soon after the holy month of Ramadan to discuss the issue and are sure to review the admission policy to make it a little stricter.
In all probability, trustees of these centres of religious studies are likely to urge the Gujarat government to scrutinise the papers of all non-Gujarat students, and not just Kashmiris, before they are given admission so as to avoid harassment later.
According to Gujarat Congress leader, Badruddin Sheikh, all seminaries were not in favour of a blanket ban on Kashmiris many of whom were poor. They came all the way to Gujarat because of high standards of madrassas - 25 of whom offer research-based doctoral courses in Islamic Studies.
Though the Darul-Ulooms find it difficult to keep a tab on their students after they leave the institutes, quite a few militancy-related incidents in the past had revealed Kashmiri students' hand. |
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