Agra, October 29, 2021 (PPI-OT):Three Kashmiri students were attacked outside a court in Agra. The students, who were recently arrested in Agra, Uttar Pradesh for celebrating the Pakistan cricket team win during the T20 World Cup match, were roughed up when they were produced in front of a magistrate in the city.

Videos from outside the court show a group of men heckling the students and shouting slogans while the police try to escort them to a police vehicle and take them away. Arsheed Yousuf, Altaf Sheikh, and Showkat Ahmed Ganai, engineering students at the Raja Balwant Singh Management Technical Campus in Agra, were charged with promoting enmity between groups on grounds of religion, and cyber-terrorism.

The accused were arrested after a group of activists led by Gaurav Rajawat of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), BJP’s youth wing, barged into the college campus without permission and accused the college administration of “sheltering traitors”. Rajawat filed a complaint with the police outside the college campus.

The college administration had denied allegations of pro-Pakistan slogans being raised in the college but suspended the students for “being involved in (the) indiscipline act of posting status in favour of Pakistan” after the India-Pakistan match. They had also criticised the right-wing group entering the college and creating a ruckus.

The students were arrested and taken to the Jagdishpura Police Station in Lohamandi and an FIR was registered under sections 153 A and 505 (1) (b) of the Indian Penal Code and section 66F of the IT Act 2008.

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