(Shimla, Feb18, 2019): A local court awarded 14-day judicial custody to a private university student, who was arrested on Sunday in connection with offensive social media posts regarding Pulwama terror attack. Additional Superintendent of Police Badi N K Thakur confirmed that the youth was produced before Judicial Magistrate First Class, Kasouli at Solan district.
B-Tech student of a private Himachal Pradesh University was arrested for allegedly ?glorifying? suicide bomber Aadil Ahmed Dar, who was behind the Pulwama attack, in which at least 40 CRPF personnel were killed, amid tension on campus on Saturday. Tahseen Gul (21) a native of Kashmir and second-year student of Chitkara University in Baddi, had allegedly put up a picture of Dar as his Whatsapp profile photo and the words ? ?Allah Talah aap ki shahadat kabool kare (May Allah accept your martydom)?.
?He was booked under IPC section 153B (imputing, making assertions prejudicial to national integration). The FIR was lodged on the basis of a complaint filed by retd Col AK Chauhan, dean of Chitkara University,? Superintendent of Baddi Rohit Malpani said. Barotiwala is about 100 km from this capital town located on Himachal Pradesh-Haryana borders. Laptop and mobile phones of student were tested for cyber crime and it is seized by police.
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