SRINAGAR – Kashmiri students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU werebooked on sedition charges. Three Kashmiri students of the university werebooked Friday for sedition for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans andtrying to hold a prayer meeting for Hizbul Mujahideen commander MananBashir Wani, who was killed in an encounter in north Kashmir Thursday.
Sheikh Abdul Rasheed, the MLA from north Kashmir’s Langate constituency,along with supporters of his Awami Ittehad Party (AIP)took out a protestmarch from his official residence at Jawahar Nagar area towards Lal Chowkcity centre, a party spokesman said.
He said the protestors were shouting slogans in favour of the students ofthe AMU “who are being harassed constantly for offering in absentia funeralprayers of Hizb commander Manan Wani”.
The spokesman said as the march reached near the Zero Bridge in the Rajbagharea, policemen stopped the protestors and took the AIP chief into custody.Talking to reporters before the march, Rasheed said offering funeralprayers for anyone, including Wani, was not a crime “but a fundamentalreligious obligation”.