Students of the University of Kashmir today held a protest demonstration demanding the release of varsity’s journalism student Tahir Hussain Mir, who has been detained under the Public Safety Act (PSA).
Students assembled on the campus and started sloganeering against the detention of Mir, a resident of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
They demanded the intervention of Vice Chancellor of the varsity Dr Khursheed Andrabi for taking up the release of Tahir with the state government.
Mir, 24, was arrested in September last year for allegedly “disrupting law and order and stone-throwing”.
Son of a late police constable, Mir is presently lodged in the Central Jail, Srinagar. He was also sacked from his job in the Education Department where he was working as a laboratory assistant.
The protests continued for 30 minutes and dispersed peacefully.
Similarly, a protest was held by the students of Government Higher Secondary School, Pulwama, in south Kashmir against the arrests of their schoolmates last night.
Students alleged that at least 20 students were arrested during a police raid last night.
The protesting students also blocked the vehicular movement in the town. They even set ablaze a motorcycle of a local policeman.
No let-up in Protests against Student’s Arrest
