Javed Akhtar
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Lyricist Javed Akhtar on Tuesday (February 28) lashed out at former cricketer Virender Sehwag and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt for trolling Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur on social media.

He wrote: "If a hardly literate player or a wrestler troll a pacifist daughter of a martyr its understandable but whats wrong with some educated folks."

Dutt, who is a wrestler, replied to Akhtar's tweet saying:

Sehwag had tweeted:

Dutt had tweeted:

Twitter users reacted to Akhtar's tweet, which has already got over 2,100 replies, 950 likes and 650 retweets in less than an hour: