
Indian police has arrested three Muslim students and a teacher for cheering Pakistan’s crushing victory over archrival India in the ongoing Twenty20 Cricket World Cup.
Police Inspector Pavindra Kumar Singh told the AFP News Agency that the students, originally from Indian-administered Kashmir, were taken into custody Wednesday in the northern city of Agra for “promoting enmity” and disrupting religious harmony.
The case was lodged after right-wing Hindu nationalist groups barged into the Raja Balwant Singh Engineering Technical College demanding the arrest of the three students, according to press reports.
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Similarly, on Wednesday Indian media reports noted that Nafeesa Attari was apprehended and was sent to jail in Udaipur after Rajasthan police produced her before a court. The Indian teacher was booked for “imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration”.
She was arrested for posting “we won” on her WhatsApp status after Pakistan routed India in Dubai earlier Sunday. Attari was later released on bail. She was also dismissed from her job, apologized for her conduct in a video message.
Attari said, “I am an Indian and I love my country. I love India as much as anyone else does. As soon as I realized I have made a mistake, I deleted my post.”