Valley student held for ‘anti-national’ remarks

Ambika Sharma

Tribune News Service

Solan, February 17

A Kasauli court today remanded a civil engineering 2nd year Kashmiri student Tasheen Gul to judicial custody till February 28 for making assertions prejudicial to national integration after he had posted a Facebook post eulogizing Adil Dar who had carried out the suicide bombing at Pulwama.

Confirming the news, SP Baddi Rohit Malpani said the mobile phone of the student, who was studying in a private university at Baddi, has been confiscated. Search was carried out in his room but nothing was recovered. Further investigations were underway.

Solan police also detained two youth for posting objectionable material on the social media this evening.

The Baddi police had arrested Gul yesterday after registering a case under section 153-B of the IPC for making assertions prejudicial to the national integration. Dean Administration of the private university AK Chauhan had reported the matter to the Barotiwala police. He had posted a comment, “Allal Talah App k Shahdat Qabool Karay Ameen,’’ below Abil Dar’s picture on his Facebook after the February 14 attack at Pulwama. The university administration was informed about this post by the fellow students. He was suspended after an internal inquiry. Though Gul had removed this post later its screenshots were made available to the university administration by the students.

Gul hails from Harwan in Jammu and Kashmir. As per the documents submitted to the private university he had done his schooling from Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Shalimar. He had secured 84.8 per cent marks in higher secondary which he has done from the Jammu & Kashmir State Board of School Education.

Gul had earlier also posted an anti-national post on his Facebook on January 5.