New Delhi: Two days after a photograph of AMU scholar Mannan Bashir Wani posing with an assault rifle surfaced on social media, the university expelled him on Tuesday.
His hostel room at the Aligarh Muslim University, too, has been sealed and an inquiry has been ordered to look into the daily routine that Wani followed during his stay.
The research scholar who had taken a break to visit his family in Kashmir, has allegedly joined militant group Hizbul Mujahideen, months after writing a Facebook post on being “harassed” by the armed forces.
A photograph of Mannan Bashir Wani, holding what appeared to be an automatic assault rifle, surfaced on social media on Sunday. According to the photograph’s caption, Wani joined the militant group on January 5 and his code name is Hamzah Bai.
AMU expelled Wani on Tuesday for violating “conduct and discipline rules” of the university.
Wani, who has an M Phil in Applied Geology, comes from a well-to-do family in the Lolab Valley. His father is reportedly a lecturer, while his brother works as a junior engineer in the Jammu and Kashmir government.
As per the information on AMU website, Wani was awarded the 'Best Paper Presentation Award' in an International Conference on 'Water, Environment, Energy and Society' (ICWEES) held at AISECT University, Bhopal, in 2016.
A close friend of Wani said on condition of anonymity that the AMU student “was pushed to militancy by an event last year when he was harassed by armed forces on his way to Srinagar.”
“He was rattled by that incident. He shared with me how he was harassed, but I never knew Mannan will take such an extreme step,” the friend said.
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