KU students stage protest against killing of Manan Wani
Demand an end to harassment of Kashmiri students at AMU
Srinagar: The students of Kashmir University on Monday staged a protest march against the killing of scholar turned militant- Mannan Wani.
The students also expressed their solidarity with Kashmiri students in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) facing “harassment” over offering funeral prayers fo Mannan Wani.
Eye witnesses said the students at the Hazratbal Campus took out a march and assembled outside the education department of the Varsity where they raised pro-freedom and anti- India slogans.
One of the students while participating in the protest said they have organised the peaceful march to protest the killing of Mannan Wani and to express solidarity with AMU students who are facing harassment in the AMU campus for trying to offer funeral prayer in absentia for Wani.
The protesting students were also carrying banners with pictures of former KU faculty member-turned-militant Dr Rafi Bhat, who was killed during a gun fight in March earlier this year.
Notably, Kashmiri students studying at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have threatened to leave for their homes on October 17, if the sedition charges against three of them are not dropped.
In a letter to AMU vice-chancellor, AMU students union former vice-president Sajjad Rathar said, “If this vilification does not stop, more than 1,200 Kashmiri students will leave for their homes in Kashmir Valley on October 17 as a last option.”
The three Kashmiris students were booked for trying to hold funeral prayers in absentia for Mannan Wani who quit his PhD at the varsity and joined militant ranks in January this year.
Wani was killed in a gunfight with the forces last week.
Meanwhile, officials in KU said the class work was disrupted due to student protest for hours in first half.
“But the situation was normal in the second half as the protesting students dispersed off peacefully after registering their protest inside the varsity,” he said.
KV Correspondent
