ALIGARH, Oct 16:
The Aligarh Muslim University revoked today the suspension of two Kashmiri students, saying “no credible evidence” of their participation in any “unlawful assembly” in the varsity campus was found.
AMU spokesman Sahafay Kidwai said that the suspension of AMU research scholars Wasim Ayub Malik and Abdul Hasib Meer was revoked after “they were exonerated by a three-member enquiry committee of the University”.
“No credible evidence was found against the two students,” Prof Kidwai said.
Malik and Meer, hailing from Kashmir, were suspended on Friday for allegedly participating in an aborted Namaaz-e-Janaza (prayer meeting) in the university campus for a slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Manaan Bashir Wani.
Malik and Meer, besides one unknown person were also booked by police on sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans and trying to hold a prayer meeting for Wani.
The investigations by the police in this matter are still on.
The Kashmiri students studying at the AMU had on Sunday also threatened to leave for their homes on October 17, if the sedition charges against three of them were not dropped.
Earlier, J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik today asked Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar to ensure that studies of Kashmiri students at the AMU are not disrupted.
The Governor spoke to the HRD Minister and Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice-Chancellor Tariq Mansoor in this regard, an official spokesman said.
Malik urged them to ensure that the issue is resolved at the earliest and there is no disruption of studies of the Kashmiri students and they are allowed to continue their studies in a safe and secure academic environment, the spokesman added.
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