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Social media posts claim missing Kashmiri student from Uttar Pradesh university has joined militant ranks

Press Trust of India • November 2, 2018, 23:52:06 IST
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Ahtesham Bilal Sofi (17), a resident of downtown Srinagar, was a first year graduation student at Greater Noida’s Sharda University.

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Social media posts claim missing Kashmiri student from Uttar Pradesh university has joined militant ranks

Noida: Social media posts carrying purported pictures of a Kashmiri boy, who went missing from a private university in Uttar Pradesh days ago, on Friday claimed that he has joined militant ranks in the Valley. Ahtesham Bilal Sofi (17), a resident of downtown Srinagar, was a first year graduation student at Greater Noida’s Sharda University. He went missing on 28 October after he left the varsity with official permission to go to Delhi, days after he was mistakenly roughed up during a scuffle between Indian and Afghan students in the campus. [caption id=“attachment_5167321” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![Representational image. Reuters](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Uttar-Pradesh-police_Reuters2.jpg) Representational image. Reuters[/caption] A missing complaint was registered in the case at the Knowledge Park police station in Greater Noida as well as at Khanyar police station in Srinagar, officials said. The pictures on social media showed Sofi dressed in a black outfit and claimed he had joined militant group ISJK, an outfit influenced by Islamic State ideology. The UP Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) said it has been tracking the case since 28 October and has taken cognisance of the photos. “We are in touch with Jammu and Kashmir police. We are tracking the footprints of the boy from Greater Noida to Kashmir,” Inspector General, ATS, Asim Arun told PTI. The Jammu and Kashmir police said they were “ascertaining” Sofi’s presence in the Valley. The Gautam Buddh Nagar police, who had traced the last location of Sofi’s mobile phone to militancy-hit Pulwama district in south Kashmir, is also probing the matter. “A missing complaint was registered and police teams are working on the case,” a senior official told PTI. According to the police here, Sofi had left for Srinagar from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport in the afternoon of 28 October and reached Pulwama a few hours later. They said his mobile phone details showed that he last spoke to his father, who lives in Srinagar, at 4.30 pm, when his location was traced to Pulwama. However, he had told his father that he was is Delhi and was returning to the university by metro, the police said.

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