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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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Ahmedabad (PTI): A tremor of 3.7 magnitude jolted Gujarat's Kutch district on Monday morning, the Institute of Seismological Research (ISR) said.

There was no report of any casualty or damage to property, the district administration said.

The tremor was recorded at 10.44 am with its epicentre 76 kilometres north-north east of Lakhpat, the Gandhinagar-based ISR said.

This is the second seismic activity of more than 3 magnitude this month in the district.

On December 7, a tremor of 3.2 magnitude was recorded in the district, according to the ISR.

Last month, Kutch recorded an earthquake of 4 magnitude on November 18.

Earlier, on November 15, Patan in north Gujarat was jolted by an earthquake of 4.2 magnitude, as per the ISR data.

Gujarat is a high earthquake-risk area.

It suffered nine major earthquakes in the past 200 years, according to data of the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA).

The earthquake in Kutch on January 26, 2001 was the third largest and second most destructive in India over the last two centuries, according to the GSDMA.

A large number of towns and villages in the district had suffered almost complete destruction in the earthquake, which killed nearly 13,800 persons and left 1.67 lakh others injured.

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