Statist idiots: Kashmiri students charged with sedition, freed after controversy erupts

The 67 Kashmiri students from Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in Meerut who had cheered Pakistan when that country's cricket team beat India in the Asia Cup match last on Sunday were hit with sedition charges under sections 124A, 153 and 427 of the IPC but freed from it later as withering criticism of the police move forced the Uttar Pradesh government to intervene in the matter.

As the issue turned into a political hot-button both in New Delhi and in Srinagar, with People's Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed calling on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to look into it, Pakistan waded into the controversy on Thursday and said its "heart and academic institutions were open" for the students.

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah compounded the situation further when he first tweeted his disapproval of the police action, calling the sedition charges "harsh", and then swerved around later in the day when he said what the Kashmiri students had done at the end of the Indo-Pak match was "wrong". He, however, also blamed the Uttar Pradesh government for allowing the case to be registered and for "harassing" the bunch of boys.

At the SVSU campus itself, there were conflicting reports and versions. University officials, who said the "entire episode has been blown out of proportion and given a political colour", said they had filed no complaint, hinting at arbitrary police action.

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Statist idiots: Kashmiri students charged with sedition, freed after controversy erupts

Statist idiots: Kashmiri students charged with sedition, freed after controversy erupts

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