UP college students booked for 'sedition' after cheering Pak cricket team
March 06, 2014 13:05
So, the group of Kashmiri students of a private university in
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, who were suspended on Tuesday, have now been booked for sedition after they cheered
Pakistan during a cricket match.
Sixty-seven students of the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University were suspended for celebrating Pakistan's victory over India in the Asia Cup match on Sunday. They now face arrest.
"The case has been registered for being against own country and supporting the other (sic)," said a senior police officer, Onkar Singh, justifying the FIR that doesn't name any student.
Read: Sedition laws and the death of free speech in India
Sixty-seven students of the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University were suspended for celebrating Pakistan's victory over India in the Asia Cup match on Sunday. They now face arrest.
"The case has been registered for being against own country and supporting the other (sic)," said a senior police officer, Onkar Singh, justifying the FIR that doesn't name any student.
Read: Sedition laws and the death of free speech in India