J&K: Hizb posters surfaces, warn students to boycott exams

SRINAGAR: Militant outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen’s posters warning the students against appearing for their annual exams have surfaced, according to a report in Times Of India.

Police quickly removed the posters that were put up near schools across the Kashmir Valley.

Not only the posters, the Hizb militants, as per reports also to have to placed second locks on the gates of several schools on the outskirts of Srinagar.

The message on the posters warnings to students has not only left the students worried but has also sent shivers down the spines of parents.

The Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) announced the date of examinations of classes 10 and 12 that will be scheduled to take place between October and November. 

48,000 students of Class 12 scheduled to appear in the annual exams while for Class-10, 40,000 are set to write their papers.

Crippling restrictions were imposed in Jammu and Kashmir after the BJP-led central government on August 5 stripped the Valley of its special status by abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution and bifurcated it into Union Territories.