Kashmiri students in India cricket row face sedition charges !
A group of Kashmiri students in India is facing charges of sedition for apparently cheering the country’s arch rival Pakistan in a cricket match.
The students of a university in Uttar Pradesh state were suspended at the weekend after the Asia Cup match in which Pakistan defeated India.
A sedition charge carries a three-year prison term in India.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the charge against the students was “unacceptably harsh”.
“I believe what the students did was wrong and misguided but they certainly didn’t deserve to have charges of sedition slapped against them,” Mr Abdullah tweeted.
He said the punishment would “ruin their [students'] futures and will further alienate them”.
Mr Abdullah said he would talk to the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and “intervene on behalf of these misguided students”.
Swami Vivekanand Subharti University The incident took place in a private university in Uttar Pradesh
The incident happened at the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in Meerut city on Sunday where a group of students allegedly “celebrated Pakistan’s win”, leading to arguments with other college mates, reports say.
The university administration then ordered an inquiry and decided to suspend the students as a “precautionary measure”.
Some of the Kashmiri students denied any wrongdoing in their statements to the media.
Cricket matches between India and Pakistan are tense, dramatic affairs and are passionately followed in both countries.
Claimed by both countries in its entirety, Kashmir has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years.
The South Asian rivals have also fought two wars and a limited conflict.
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