New Delhi: A Twitter campaign by the right-wing users of the micro-blogging site termed the supporters of Umar Khalid as terrorists. The campaign had, at the time of posting this report, had recorded nearly 60,000 tweets.

The campaign comes a day after former JNU student leader Umar Khalid was arrested by Delhi Police under the stringent UAPA law for allegedly conspiring the North-East Delhi Riots that broke out in February this year.

Several leaders, activists, and people from across fraternities had called on Delhi Police after Umar’s arrest adding that the police were involved in witch-hunting instead of arresting those who actually triggered and promoted violence that resulted in the Delhi Riots.

As a counter move by the right-wing users took to Twitter and termed Umar Khalid as a terrorist before going on to add that those who support him were also terrorists.

The police, on the other hand, presented Umar before Additional Sessions Judge and sought 10-day custody adding that they want to confront him with a huge amount of data.

Umar, ever since his arrest on Sunday night has been receiving support from all quarters and #StandWithUmarKhalid was among the top-trending hashtags on Twitter India with over 2.5 lakh tweets during the time of posting of this report.

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Here are some of the tweets from Monday’s campaign wherein the right-wing users termed those supporting Umar Khalid as terrorists:

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Mandya: Four members of a family were killed on the spot in an accident reported on Thursday on the Bengaluru-Mysuru Expressway stretch near Tubinakere in the taluk, where a state transport bus hit the car they were traveling in.

The deceased are identified as Raje Urs (51), his wife Nischitha (45), relative Chandru (62) and Chandru’s wife Suvedini Rani (50).

They were traveling from Bengaluru to Mysuru when an Airavat bus of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) hit their car near Tubinakere, situated in the jurisdiction limits of Mandya Rural Police Station. The car is reported to be completely damaged due to the intensity of the collision.

DIG (South Division) Boralingayya and Mandya Superintendent of Police Mallikarjun Baladandi have visited the accident site and conducted an inspection.