7 SKUAST College students Get Bail, UAPA Fees Dropped – Kashmir Observer

Srinagar- Seven college students, who had been arrested underneath the UAPA for allegedly elevating objectionable slogans and celebrating the Indian cricket workforce’s loss within the World Cup remaining, had been Saturday granted bail by a court docket after police dropped costs underneath the stringent anti-terror legislation.

The scholars of the Sher-e-Kashmir College of Agricultural Sciences and Expertise (SKUAST) in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district had been granted bail by the court docket of chief judicial Justice of the Peace (CJM) Ganderbal, the lawyer representing the scholars, Shafiq Ahmad Bhat, informed PTI.

He stated the scholars had been launched late on Saturday night.

The lawyer stated the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA) costs towards the scholars have been dropped.

“The police submitted its report within the CJM court docket whereby the UAPA costs had been dropped,” Bhat stated.

The police stated the UAPA costs had been dropped after a “thoughtful view was taken” following an enterprise by their dad and mom.

“Underneath convincing enterprise by the dad and mom of scholars that no hurt will come to anybody else from their kids, a thoughtful view was taken to proceed the investigation in IPC offences,” Inspector Common of Police (IGP), Kashmir, V Okay Birdi, informed PTI.

The scholars had been arrested after police launched an investigation right into a criticism by a non-local pupil who alleged his faculty mates had harassed him and raised objectionable slogans after India misplaced the World Cup’s remaining match to Australia.

The police had booked the scholars underneath Part 13 of UAPA, which offers with the inciting or advising of any illegal exercise and is punishable with seven years’ jail.

The scholars had been additionally slapped with IPC sections 505 and 506 which cope with public mischief and legal intimidation, underneath which, if convicted, the jail time period can go as much as 5 years.

The reserving of the scholars underneath the UAPA had evoked sturdy criticism from the political events who had demanded dropping of the costs.

In the meantime, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti whereas welcoming the dropping of the costs, stated “lastly good sense has prevailed”.

“Glad to know that UAPA costs towards SKUAST college students have been dropped. Lastly good sense has prevailed & their future saved from jeopardy,” she stated in a submit on X.

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