{"id":306517,"date":"2018-12-03T07:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T07:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306517"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T07:59:41","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-valley-student-who-joined-islamic-state-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-valley-student-who-joined-islamic-state-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Valley student who joined Islamic State arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306518 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/terrorist-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/terrorist-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/terrorist.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Kashmiri student, who went missing from Sharda University in Noida on October 28 and later joined the militant ranks of Islamic State\u2019s Kashmir chapter was arrested in Srinagar on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ehtisham Bilal, a resident of downtown Srinagar, was a first-year student of bachelors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bilal was allegedly beaten up by some students in the campus on October 4. This was believed to be the tipping point which forced Bilal to join militant ranks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bilal disappeared from the university on October 28 and days later, his photograph was surfaced on the social media with an audio message claiming that he had joined the militant ranks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bilal\u2019s family had been\u00a0continuously pleading\u00a0for his return through social media, since he had been missing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the police, Bilal was arrested from his home in Khanyar, Srinagar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further investigations were being carried out by police.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kashmiri student, who went missing from Sharda University in Noida on October 28 and later joined the militant ranks of Islamic State\u2019s Kashmir chapter was arrested in Srinagar on Sunday. Ehtisham Bilal, a resident of downtown Srinagar, was a first-year student of bachelors. Bilal was allegedly beaten up by some students in the campus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[10046,1141,10045,10047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306517"}],"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=306517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306519,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306517\/revisions\/306519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}