The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday said that stern action would be taken against all those involved in subversive activities or engaged in any kind of anti-national activity.

“The government is with the innocent people. But restrictions should be placed on those who are indulging in activities which are against the nation’s interest,” Health Minister Sidharth Nath Singh told reporters in Lucknow on Tuesday.

Singh was replying to a question on three Kashmiri students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), who were booked for trying to hold a prayer meeting for a slain terrorist.

“Universities must take action against those indulging in activities detrimental to the nation’s interest. Those who are innocent should be allowed to stay. We are making efforts in this direction,” the minister said.

On October 13, three AMU students from Kashmir were booked for raising ‘anti-India’ slogans and trying to hold a prayer meeting for Hizbul Mujahideen ultra Manan Bashir Wani, who was killed in an encounter in north Kashmir.

Earlier, Wani was pursuing a PhD course in applied geology at the AMU but he quit the university to join militants in January this year.

“Police have filed an FIR against Wasim Malik, Abdul Mir and an unnamed person. They have been identified on the basis of a video recording,” Senior Superintendent of Police of Aligarh, Ajai Sahni, said.

The trio were suspended from the AMU earlier.

In the wake of their suspension, more than 1,200 students from Jammu and Kashmir studying at the AMU threatened to leave for their homes on October 17, if sedition charge against the trio was not dropped.

In a letter to AMU proctor, students of Jammu and Kashmir studying in the university said, “No prayers or any relevant activity was observed and the directions of AMU proctor were duly followed.”

AMU registrar Abdul Hamid said that there would be no witch-hunt against any student.