Arrests – Others

The Jammu and Kashmir Police in Kashmir has filed a case under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against seven Kashmiri students for allegedly raising pro-Pakistan slogans during the Cricket World Cup final held recently.

The police in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district filed a case under Section 13 (unlawful activity punishable with imprisonment) of the UAPA, and Sections 505 (inciting to commit any offence against any other class or community) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code. All the seven students study at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology-Kashmir (SKUAST-K), in Ganderbal’s Shuhama.

The police action followed a written complaint filed by a student from Punjab studying at the SKUAST-K. “After the match ended, they [Kashmiri students] started abusing me and targeting me for being a supporter of our country and also threatened me to shut up otherwise I would be shooted [sic],” reads the complaint of the student from Punjab.

He alleged that the Kashmiri students shouted the slogan “Jeeve Jeeve Pakistan [Long Live Pakistan] which created fear amongst the students from outside the Union Territory of J&K”.