TIL Desk/National/Kashmir/ AMID A shutdown spearheaded by the Hurriyat across Kashmir, following the killing of militant Burhan Wani in July, 573 students of Delhi Public School in Srinagar appeared for their internal exams this month at an indoor stadium inside a high-security zone in the city with assistance from the J&K government.
Among those who attended the exams for DPS students of classes 9 and 10 in the Civil Lines area from October 1-5 was the granddaughter of separatist leader and Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani. The daughter of Geelani’s eldest son Dr Nayeem Zafar Geelani, she is a class 10 student in the school.
Since the killing of Wani on July 8, government and private schools across the Valley have remained shut for 111 consecutive days, with the Hurriyat refusing to exempt them from its protest calendar. A government curfew was also in place for nearly two months.
Recently, in an effort to break the shutdown and bring students back to school, the state government had announced that it would conduct the final exams of all classes on time. Parents and students, however, protested against the decision and demanded a postponement given the situation in the Valley.
