AMU cracks down on offensive post.
The AMU on Friday suspended an undergraduate student from Kashmir for allegedly lauding a terrorist outfit in a social media post after the terror strike in Pulwama in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.
Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) spokesperson Omar Peerzada told PTI that the matter is being further probed and "strong deterrent action" will be taken once the investigation is complete.
"AMU has zero tolerance for any such pernicious activity and anyone indulging in such an act will not be spared," Peerzada said. mThe student's alleged remarks had triggered outrage on social media.
On Thursday, several Twitter users were found to mock the martyred soldiers on social media.
Of which Basim Hilal's comments sparked outrage for its brazen nature. Immediately there was outrage. Now apart from the university, even the law authorites have acted against him and an FIR has been filed.
Basim according to his twitter profile, studies Mathematics in AMU.
1. How's the jaish, said the student allegedly mocking the martyrs
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According to screenshots which are going round on social media, Basim Hilal had posted,
#AMU mathematics-student Basim Hilal tweets to celebrate #AvantiporaTerrorAttack ... After being exposed, he delete/deactivates his handle and ran away.
— #Intolerant भारतीय (@goyalsanjeev) February 14, 2019
M/s AMU-VC, @myogiadityanath Will you take action on this traitor? RUSTICATE and then ARREST him to find his Jihadi linkspic.twitter.com/eEIakpTOiK
He had said, "How's the Jaish", a wordplay on 'How's the Jaish", a dialogue which became popular from the film 'Uri', based on surgical strike done by India.
2. AMU-PRO condemns statement
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Omar Saleem Peerzada, AMU PRO on Basim Hilal: We've come to know of the highly objectionable tweet. Taking immediate cognizance he has been suspended by AMU admn. We won't let the University be discredited. We've zero tolerance. He hails from Kashmir&was a BSc Mathematics student pic.twitter.com/02IzJxIvYm
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) February 15, 2019
Omar Saleem Peerzada, AMU PRO said on Basim Hilal, "We've come to know of the highly objectionable tweet. Taking immediate cognizance he has been suspended by AMU admn. We won't let the University be discredited. We've zero tolerance. He hails from Kashmir&was a BSc Mathematics student
3. 'Free hand given to forces': PM Modi
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Pakistan cannot weaken India by orchestrating attacks and those responsible will pay a "very heavy price", Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned on Friday as echoes from the Pulwama terror strike rang across the country with families awaiting the bodies of their loved ones in coffins wrapped in the tricolour.
Security forces will be given a free hand to deal with terrorists, the prime minister said, a day after 40 CRPF soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle laden with explosives into their bus in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.
The Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed has claimed responsibility for the attack on the convoy of 78 vehicles that was on its way from Jammu to Srinagar.
"I want to tell the terror outfits and those aiding and abetting them that they have made a big mistake. They will have to pay a very heavy price for their actions. Let me assure the nation that those behind this attack, the perpetrators of this attack will be punished, Modi said at a function to flag off the Vande Bharat Express, India's fastest train from Delhi to Varanasi.
All efforts would be made to isolate Pakistan, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.
Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale summoned Pakistan High Commissioner to India Sohail Mahmood and lodged India's strong protest, official sources said.
Making it clear that India means business, the Cabinet Committee on Security, which met on Friday morning, decided to withdraw Most Favoured Nation status to Pakistan.
It would enable India to increase customs duty on goods coming from the neighbouring country.
India granted MFN status to Pakistan way back in in 1996, but it has not yet reciprocated.
In his hard-hitting speech here, Modi said the "blood of the people is boiling" and forces behind the act of terrorism will definitely be punished.
"Security forces have been given complete freedom, the blood of the people is boiling...Our neighbouring country, which has been isolated internationally, thinks such terror attacks can destabilise us, but their plans will not materialise," Modi said.
Addressing a public meeting in Jhansi later in the day, the prime minister again did not name Pakistan but said the attack was an outcome of its desperation as it is in a bad shape and has been forced to go to different countries with a "begging bowl" to meet even its daily expenses.
Asserting that the sacrifices of CRPF soldiers will "not go in vain", he said, "Security forces have been given permission to take decisions about the timing, place and nature of their response... This is an India of new convention and policy." Briefing reporters after the CCS meeting, which is unusual, Jaitley said all efforts will be made to ensure that perpetrators of the attack are brought to book.
Jaitley said the Ministry of External Affairs will launch an all out effort to isolate Pakistan and all diplomatic efforts will be launched in this regard.
Describing the terror assault as an attack on India's soul, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said his party as well as the entire opposition was fully supportive of the government and the security forces.
"I want to make it very clear that the aim of terrorism is to divide this country and we are not going to be divided for even one second, no matter how hard people try," he told reporters.
As the government and politicians reacted to the attack and the families of those killed came to grips with the enormity of the tragedy, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh travelled to Srinagar and laid a wreath on the mortal remains of the troops.
The remains of the 40 CRPF personnel, many of whom were returning from leave to rejoin work in the Valley, were kept in coffins, draped in the tricolour, ready to make their final journey home.
Singh gave a shoulder to the coffin of one the jawans killed.
Governor Satya Pal Malik, Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba, CRPF Director General R R Bhatnagar, Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbagh Singh besides others attended the wreath laying ceremony.
"The nation will not forget the supreme sacrifice of our brave CRPF jawans," Singh said.
As if in echo, the younger brother of V V Vasanth Kumar, who had left his home in Kerala's Wayanad district on February 8 and was one of those killed, said his sacrifice would never be forgotten.
"My elder brother died for the country and we are proud of his sacrifice," Sajeevan told PTI.
Vasanth Kumar's mother Shanta and wife Sheena are inconsolable and his two young children have not yet been informed.
Their grief found resonance in 39 other homes across the country.
Protests against Pakistan broke out in several parts, including in Jammu city where curfew was imposed. a
