Assam Professor detained for Facebook Post criticising army’s role in Kashmir

New Delhi: A Guwahati-based professor of a private college was suspended from her job and thereafter detained by Assam police for questioning due to a Facebook post she made on the February 14 Pulwama attack.

On February 15, Papri Z. Banerjee, an assistant professor at the English department of a private institute – Icon Commerce College, Guwahati – on Facebook denounced the news of “45 brave young men killed” and called the attack an act of “cowardice of the highest order” that “would break the heart of any Indian”. She also said the security forces “rape their (Kashmiri) women”, “Maim and kill their children”, “slaughter their men” and “media constantly demonises them”. She asked, “And you expect no retaliation?”