Kolkata: Kolkata police are
seeking information from all colleges in Kolkata about students from Jammu and
Kashmir.
This is lieu of the
protests by students at Jadavpur University on the arrest of students at
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Kashmiri students’ sedition charges for
raising anti-India slogans.
The colleges received
the notes in the last week of February when Kanhaiya Kumar, president of Jawaharlal
Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) was arrested and students across India
came out in protest against the Modi government. Former J&K chief minister
Omar Abdullah has reached out to Mamata Banerjee on Twitter and enquired if the
news of being harassed was true.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Intelligence) Pallab Kanti Ghosh
confirmed the authenticity of the news. He, however, refused to say why the
details were being sought.
“It’s an attempt to create dossiers on J&K students so that we
can monitor their activities. This is really something new we are doing for the
first time,” a police officer said. According to a Home Ministry official, the
Centre has issued a general advisory to all states asking to take precautionary
measures, especially after JNU controversy where anti-national and pro-Afzal
Guru slogans were raised.
Meanwhile, Kanhaiya
Kumar today denied that he had received any expulsion warning from JNU. He led
an “azadi” protest march with five demands that include exit of Education
Minister Smriti Irani. "We want the resignation of Smriti Irani, dropping
of sedition charges, the release of two students from jail, no interferences in
the university's autonomy and a law against caste politics in colleges,” Kumar
said.
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