A court in Kashmir on December 2 granted interim bail till December 13 to seven students who were jailed under provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for celebrating the loss of India to Australia in the Cricket World Cup final on November 18.
The Ganderbal Court in central Kashmir granted bail to the seven Kashmiri students, who study at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology-Kashmir (SKUAST-K), in Ganderbal’s Shuhama.
The arrest of the seven local students followed a written complaint by a fellow student from Punjab. The non-local student, according to the First Information Report (FIR), accused the seven Kashmiri students of “abusing and targeting him for being a supporter of our country”. The Kashmiri students were accused of shouting “Jeeve Jeeve Pakistan (Long Live Pakistan)“ after India’s loss in the World Cup “creating fear amongst the students from outside the Union Territory of J&K”.
