Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested seven SKUAST students under an anti-terror law for allegedly celebrating India’s loss to Australia during the recently concluded World Cup.
The arrested persons have been identified as Umer, Asif, Mohsin, Tauqeer, Khali, Sameer, and Ubaid Gulzar who are enrolled in different courses at the university with most of them are believed to be on the verge of completing their degrees.
A first information report (FIR) has been filed by Ganderbal police station under Section 13 (advocating, abetting or inciting any unlawful activity) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967 (UAPA) and Sections 505 (inciting communal violence) and 506 (criminal intimidation) in connection with the incident.
As per reports, the incident took place on November 19 at one of the two undergraduate hostels of the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agriculture Science and Technology in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.
Reports stated that there was sloganeering allegedly inside the hostel, where some local students stay which was filmed by non-local students and handed over to police.
The FIR was filed on the basis of a complaint by Sachin Bains, a student of the Faculty of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry at the university.