Pro-Pakistan slogan:Three Kashmiri students booked for sedition, later released
Hubballi/UNI: Three Kashmir students who were arrested on Saturday and subsequently booked under sedition law for raising pro Pakistan slogans, were released here on Sunday after they executed a bond under Section 169 of the CrPc.
All three youth of KLE Institute of Technology were released after they executed bond under Section 169 of the CrPc, wherein they assured to come back whenever they were summoned, Hubballi-Dharwad Police Commissioner R Dilip said.
Section 169 of the CrPc is invoked when an investigating officer is of the view that sufficient evidence is not available to produce an accused before a court for remand.
Dilip said the police was handling the matter sensitively because the case itself was sensitive with national ramifications, which may lead to a media trial.
The students were arrested on Saturday on charges of sedition and attempt to disrupt communal harmony, after a video in which they allegedly raised “Pro-Pakistan” slogans went viral, leading to protests from Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
Karnataka Minister for Large & Medium Industries Jagadish Shettar on Saturday stated that the government will not tolerate any such anti-national activities. "Such incidents were not good for the progress of the country and that Hubballi-Dharwad was a peace loving twin-city and such incidents weakened the social fabric", he said.
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