Sedition charge against 66 Kashmiri students withdrawn, Lashkar chief, Pakistan jump into fray

Manzoor Ahmad, Vice Chancellor of the university, said a three-member committee under a Kashmiri profressor has been set up and a decision on revocation of their suspension will be taken based on its report which is expected in a few days.

On apprehensions of the Kashmiri students that they may be targeted if they return to the university, he held out an assurance that this will not happen.

Omar, however, said that what the students did was wrong and misguided. "The sad fact is that some of these students are recipients of the PM scholarship for Kashmiris. Perhaps they need to introspect," he tweeted.

After preliminary investigations, the authorities had expelled 60 Kashmiri students for three days and asked them to vacate the hostel after they cheered for Pakistan in the Asia Cup match in Dhaka and celebrated its victory against India on Sunday.

Earlier, SSP(Meerut) Omkar Singh said that on the basis of the complaint submitted by University Chancellor PK Garg, unnamed Kashmiri students have been booked under section 124 A (sedition), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 427 (mischief) of IPC.