Kashmiri students suspended over Pakistani cricket support

Over 60 Kashmiri students at an Indian university in Uttar Pradesh were suspended and charged with sedition and disrupting communal harmony after cheering for the Pakistani cricket team, following Pakistan's win against India.

District magistrate of Meerut, Pankaj Yadav, told BBC Hindi that after investigating the complaint they found no evidence to support the sedition charge, but that the authorities would continue to investigate the other charge.

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