The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association on Monday alleged that Kashmiri students in several northern states are facing profiling, eviction and intimidation in the aftermath of the November 10 blast near Delhi’s Red Fort, PTI reported.

The blast near the Red Fort metro station on November 10 had left 13 persons dead. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”. The doctor believed to have been driving the car that exploded was identified as Umar Nabi, a resident of Kashmir.

During a press conference in New Delhi on Monday, the student body’s National Convenor Nasir Khuehami urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene to “call off the vilification” of the community.

Khuehami said that “a particular community is being targeted after the attack”, claiming that Kashmiri students were being harassed in universities and neighbourhoods in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi, the news agency reported.

“Kashmiri students believe in India's democracy and in the mainstream, not in terrorism,” PTI quoted Khuehami as saying. “But they are being profiled and vilified by authorities and local people across states. Many landlords have asked Kashmiri tenants to vacate their rooms, forcing several students to return home out of fear.”

Khuehami added that the association had “no objection to any investigation” into...

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