: For allegedly cheering Pakistan cricket team, Kashmiri students charged with cyberterror, sedition #IndiaNEWS Three months after it arrested three Kashmiri students in Agra for allegedly celebrating

For allegedly cheering Pakistan cricket team, Kashmiri students charged with cyberterror, sedition #IndiaNEWS
Three months after it arrested three Kashmiri students in Agra for allegedly celebrating the Pakistan cricket team’s victory over India on social media, the Uttar Pradesh police has charged them with cyber terrorism, sedition, promoting enmity between different groups and making statements likely to cause alarm to the public. The chargesheet was presented to the Agra chief judicial magistrate’s court on Tuesday. The Agra court took cognisance of the matter in an order dated January 27, signalling that prosecution could start. The three students continue to languish in an Agra jail, denied bail by the court. Their lawyer, Madhuvan Dutt Chaturvedi, said they are now in “illegal custody�?. Since the chargesheet included offences against the state, it needed government sanction certifying that the the prosecution could proceed. “Section 196 of the Criminal Procedure Code [prosecution for offences against the State and for criminal conspiracy to commit such offence] provides that no court shall take cognisance of these offences except with the previous sanction of the state government or the central government as the case may be,�? Chaturvedi said. The sanction was missing in this chargesheet, he said, without which the investigation could not be considered complete even 90 days after the arrest....Read more

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