An NCC woman cadet was trolled on social media by a gang of separatist trolls for urging Kashmiri youth to shun stone pelting and “azadi” campaigns and embrace “real freedom”. The student of of Government Degree College for Women, Anantnag, was abused and threatened on Facebook after she praised the Indian army in a 2.50-minute video.

“As you are aware of the prevailing situation in Srinagar and southern parts of the valley, I request all the parents and children to not take to protesting, stone pelting and raising slogans for azadi,” she says in the video.

“Azadi is nothing. If you want azadi it is here. Life is here.... It is the 1Indian army which is going to bring you life,” she said.

The video soon went viral, with trolls, mostly men, hurling foul, gendered abuses at her. A few others threatened her and abused her parents for “letting down Kashmir’s azaadi movement”.

State Deputy CM Nirmal Singh assured the woman that the government and security forces would handle the situation. “She has spoken the mind of the Kashmiri people. The youth here wants development and peace. They believe that their future is the largest democracy in India,” he said.

The incident comes eight months after Zaira Wasim, who played Geeta Phogat in Amir Khan-starrer Dangal, had to apologis after she was trolled for meeting Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.