Mudasir Kamran is ‘Afzal Guru II’: Kashmir Separatists

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Rakib Altaf

SRINAGAR: The Muttahida Majlis e Mashwarat or a joint advisory council of separatist parties in Kashmir say the young research scholar from Kashmir who died mysteriously in Hyderabad on Saturday was actually “murdered by Hindu fanatics”.

A statement issued by the council says the student was murdered for taking part in protests against the hanging of Guru and also leading funeral prayers in absentia for him.

The council has also given him the title “Afzal e Saani” or ‘Afzal Guru II’

Mudasir Kamran, a research scholar from Pulwama’s Parigam village in his mid twenties, was pursuing a doctorate at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

He was found hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room by his colleagues late on Saturday and died while being shifted to a hospital.

Although the statement by the council makes no mention about how it acquired the information, it says that after taking part in the protests Kamran had an argument with ‘Hindu teachers’ and was subsequently locked up and tortured.

It says the body of the deceased bore clear torture marks “which indicate that he was murdered brutally”.

“They murdered him as part of a conspiracy,” the statement says.

But another statement issued separately by the Mirwaiz-led faction of the Hurriyat – although it is a part of the joint council – has expressed serious concern over what it said was the “mysterious death” of a student in Hyderabad.

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Many versions

There have been conflicting versions of how Mudasir Kamran died on Saturday.

The Hyderabad police say he was found hanging in his room, but are awaiting his postmortem report to verify other angles to his death as no suicide note was found.

The Police in Kashmir say they have been informed by their counterparts in Hyderabad that a case has been registered against the proctor of the university for “abetment to commit suicide”.

On Sunday, as news about the death spread, angry youth in Pulwama enforced a shutdown and clashed with the police.

Many there believe that Kamran was tortured to death by the police during investigations into the recent twin blasts in Hyderabad which killed at least 18 people and wounded over a hundred.

Others alleged that Mudasir was in fact killed for taking part in protest demonstrations against the hanging of Afzal Guru.

An unsolicited video on YouTube does show the late Mudasir leading a funeral prayer in absentia for Guru.

But the deceased student’s friends “in an attempt to dispel rumours” told a local newspaper that he was arrested only after he had a scuffle with his room-mate from Pune.

Reports from Hyderabad say the young man was detained for a couple of hours after his “close” friend had complained to the proctor over indiscipline.