Himachal student held for comments on social media on Pulwama attack

IANS  |  Shimla 

on Saturday arrested an engineering undergraduate student of a private university for positing comments in favour of the Pulwama terror attack that left 49 CRPF troopers dead, police said.

Tahseen Gul, a student of in Baddi, was arrested for posting comments on on a video of suicide bomber Adil Ahmad Dar, a said.

A video of Dar was released by Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed just minutes after he carried out the dastardly attack.

Gul was arrested on the complaint of the university and was booked under Section 153 (B) of the Indian Penal Code.

His fellow students informed the university about his comments.

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First Published: Sat, February 16 2019. 23:14 IST