Hilal tweet misinterpreted, claims ex-AMUSU leader

  • | Saturday | 16th February, 2019

He was also barred from entering the campus. Great Sir” and used the hashtags ‘Kashmir’ and ‘Pulwama’ in an apparent reference to a dialogue from the recent Bollywood film Uri, which is based on the Army’s 2016 surgical strikes in Pakistan.The tweet was, however, not available later as Hilal presumably deactivated his account.The student was immediately suspended by the university for committing acts of “indiscipline and misconduct”. Agra: A day after a Kashmiri student of Aligarh Muslim University was booked for hailing the Pulwama attack that claimed lives of 44 CRPF jawans, another Kashmiri student, who is also the former vice-president of the varsity’s students’ union, said that his tweet was “misinterpreted”.Sajjad Subhan Rather said that AMU student Basim Hilal was wrongly booked by the local police and the university should not have suspended him without inquiring into the matter.“Kashmiris are being harassed everywhere,” he claimed.Rather, however, found no support from the AMU students’ union, which said he was expressing his personal views.“We strongly condemn Hilal’s tweet and seek strong action against him if he is found guilty,” AMUSU's present vice-president Humza Sufyan said on Saturday.In a controversial tweet, Hilal, who is pursuing BSc in mathematics, had written, “How’s the Jaish?

Agra: A day after a Kashmiri student of Aligarh Muslim University was booked for hailing the Pulwama attack that claimed lives of 44 CRPF jawans, another Kashmiri student, who is also the former vice-president of the varsity’s students’ union, said that his tweet was “misinterpreted”.Sajjad Subhan Rather said that AMU student Basim Hilal was wrongly booked by the local police and the university should not have suspended him without inquiring into the matter.“Kashmiris are being harassed everywhere,” he claimed.Rather, however, found no support from the AMU students’ union, which said he was expressing his personal views.“We strongly condemn Hilal’s tweet and seek strong action against him if he is found guilty,” AMUSU's present vice-president Humza Sufyan said on Saturday.In a controversial tweet, Hilal, who is pursuing BSc in mathematics, had written, “How’s the Jaish? Great Sir” and used the hashtags ‘Kashmir’ and ‘Pulwama’ in an apparent reference to a dialogue from the recent Bollywood film Uri, which is based on the Army’s 2016 surgical strikes in Pakistan.The tweet was, however, not available later as Hilal presumably deactivated his account.The student was immediately suspended by the university for committing acts of “indiscipline and misconduct”. He was also barred from entering the campus.

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