{"id":304226,"date":"2018-10-16T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304226"},"modified":"2018-10-16T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T18:10:29","slug":"aligarh-muslim-university-revokes-suspension-of-kashmiri-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/aligarh-muslim-university-revokes-suspension-of-kashmiri-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Aligarh Muslim University revokes suspension of Kashmiri students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/aligarh-muslim-university-revokes-suspension-of-kashmiri-students\/amu1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-304227\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304227 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AMU1-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/AMU1-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/AMU1-768x449.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/AMU1-696x407.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/AMU1-718x420.jpg 718w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/AMU1.jpg 875w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a>Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Tuesday revoked the suspension of the two Kashmiri students, charged with sedition along with another student. All The three students were earlier booked for allegedly raising \u201canti-India\u201d slogans and trying to hold \u2018namaz-e-janaza\u2019 (prayer meeting) for\u00a0Hizbul Mujahideen militant Manan Bashir Wani, who was killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s Handwara district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Aligarh Muslim University PRO Omar Peerzada said, \u201cA three-member committee which was constituted to look into the matter, concluded that the \u2018suspension will be harsh for their act and conduct\u2019. Based on the evidence found by the committee it was decided that the suspension order be revoked.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kashmiri students studying at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Monday had organized a protest march on the campus and threatened to leave for their homes on October 17, if the sedition charges on their three peers were not dropped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The students held protest march from the Sir Syed Gate to the office of Vice Chancellor Prof. Tariq Mansoor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sajjad Rathar, former vice-president AMU students union, in a letter to AMU vice-chancellor had said, that 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The letter was handed over to AMU Proctor Mohsin Khan in presence of Kashmiri students.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Tuesday revoked the suspension of the two Kashmiri students, charged with sedition along with another student. All The three students were earlier booked for allegedly raising \u201canti-India\u201d slogans and trying to hold \u2018namaz-e-janaza\u2019 (prayer meeting) for\u00a0Hizbul Mujahideen militant Manan Bashir Wani, who was killed in an encounter with security forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[5523,1461,3483,1141,4440,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304229,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304226\/revisions\/304229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}