Ahmed Azar Khan, 21, a third-year History Honours student at Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu, Arabi-Farsi University, which falls under the ambit of Lucknow University, has been expelled by his Vice-Chancellor Prof Mahrukh Mirza, for sharing a dissenting post against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on Facebook and for calling students to gather in protest against the CAA and proposed nation-wide NRC.

Describing his rustication as 'personal khunnas (grudge),' Khan said that the vendetta against him began in October earlier this year. "I had put up a post asking students to assemble for a protest rally against the mob lynching and rape in Kashmir. But I was threatened by the VC to not go for the march or else I would be expelled," he said, talking to mid-day over the phone.