Srinagar: Students of Kashmir University on Monday staged a protest regarding the killing of a Manan Wani, the PhD scholar turned Hizb commander who was killed along with his associate at home district Kupwara in north Kashmir on Thursday last.
Shouting pro-freedom and pro-Wani slogans, the students marched inside the varsity and also expressed solidarity with Kashmiri students who are facing harassment in the AMU campus for trying to offer funeral prayer in absentia for Wani.
They 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.
Around 1200 Kashmiri students studying at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have threatened to leave en-masse on October 17, birth day of the varsity founding father, if the sedition charges against three of them was not dropped.
When this report was filed, the protests were going on inside the campus . While Manan was killed on October 11, the university authorities had suspended class work in the varsity on next day on Friday.
On weekend, there were hardly any class work due to strike in poll bounds areas leading to the university. On Saturday, voting for the penultimate phase of the elections took place, recording a meager 3.5 percent in Kashmir.
