New Delhi: In view of recent clashes over the killing of terrorist Mannan Wani, Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik said that his administration has taken up the issue of the well-being of Kashmiri students studying in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) with the Uttar Pradesh government.

The governor’s assertion came a day after three Kashmiri students of AMU were booked on sedition charges for allegedly raising “anti-India” slogans and trying to hold a funeral prayer meeting for Hizbul Mujahideen militant Manan Bashir Wani on October 12.

Wani, a former PhD scholar of AMU who left research to join militancy in Kashmir, was killed in an encounter with security forces in north Kashmir on Thursday.

During an interaction with youth at Sheri Kashmir International Convention Centre, the governor assured that his administration has taken up the concern for well-being of Kashmiri students studying in AMU with their administrative counterparts in Uttar Pradesh, an official spokesman of the J-K government said.

Kashmiri students studying in AMU have written a letter to AMU vice-chancellor denying the charges and threatened to leave the University en masse from October 17 if the sedition charges against the three of them are not dropped.

AMU students union former vice-president Sajjad Rathar has written that “if this vilification does not stop, more than 1,200 Kashmiri students will leave for their homes in the Kashmir Valley on October 17 as a last option.”

Terming the slapping of sedition charges as “vendetta”, Rathar has said, “The option of holding Namaaz-e-Janaza (funeral prayer) in absentia was dropped after the AMU authorities did not give the permission.”