J&K bans education group Siraj-ul-Uloom over ‘Jamaat links’

SRINAGAR: J&K authorities person banned Jamia Siraj-ul-Uloom implicit alleged links with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami and charges of “fostering an situation conducive to radicalisation”.

The acquisition instauration based successful Shopian was sealed connected Monday.According to an bid issued by Kashmir divisional commissioner Anshul Garg connected April 24, the instauration has been declared “unlawful” nether Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA), based connected a study of the Shopian constabulary main (SSP).PDP main and erstwhile CM Mehbooba Mufti called the enactment “flagrant injustice to the mediocre underprivileged sections of society”.

Peoples Conference president Sajad Lone termed the determination “deeply concerning.” “This has present go a trend. It is dangerous. Selective targeting volition not work,” Sajad said.Established successful 1998, Siraj-ul-Uloom runs a schoolhouse and a college, which is affiliated to University of Kashmir. Both person implicit 800 students and 100 teachers and different unit members.In his two-page order, commissioner Garg cited the SSP’s dossier of March 24, 2026, saying “the institution, though ostensibly functioning arsenic a spiritual acquisition establishment, is marred by superior legal, administrative, and fiscal irregularities, including questionable onshore acquisition, deficiency of mandatory registration with competent authorities, and deliberate attempts to evade statutory oversight”.

The bid claims “credible inputs and grounds connected covert linkages of the proscribed Jamaat-e-Isami”. It says “a fig of its erstwhile students having been recovered progressive successful militant activities and acts prejudicial to nationalist security, thereby suggesting misuse of the instauration for purposes detrimental to the sovereignty and integrity of the nation”.Following the SSP’s report, Siraj-ul-Uloom president Mohd Shafi Lone was issued a showcause connected March 31, 2026.

He responded with objections but the SSP rejected them arsenic “misconceived, factually untenable, and devoid of ineligible merit”, paving the mode for the ban.Mehbooba seized connected the enactment to slam the Omar Abdullah-led NC govt, accusing it of being a “mute bystander and a timid enabler of vicious assaults connected J&Ks individuality and dignity”. The Omar govt does not oversee instrumentality and order. The Centre-appointed lieutenant politician (LG) Manoj Sinha does so.“This instauration (Siraj-ul-Uloom) has produced reputed doctors and professionals who served this federation with dedication. Banning these altruistic institutions without immoderate coagulated grounds of anti-national enactment shows deep-seated prejudice and sick intentions,” Mehbooba said.Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Kashmir’s main cleric, echoed the condemnation. “A sitting MP (Engineer Rashid) is denied bail to sojourn his critically sick father.

Now, a starring acquisition institute with a affluent bequest is declared unlawful. Can the LG medication archer the radical of Kashmir however agelong they volition proceed this argumentation disempowerment? And tin the elected (Omar) govt archer america however agelong they volition fto this happen,” Mirwaiz asked.Siraj-ul-Uloom main Shafi expressed astonishment astatine the action. “We are not progressive successful immoderate unlawful enactment and travel each govt regulations. We person nary affiliation with Jamaat-e-Islami,” Shafi asserted.Siraj-ul-Uloom denied Jamaat links successful the past, too. In Aug past year, its teachers and students held a Tricolour rally to affirm their patriotic credentials and explicit allegiance to the nation.