Four students face sedition charges, man thrashed in aftermath of Pulwama attack

'Kashmiri Muslims in some parts of the country said on Sunday they were facing a backlash, three days after a suicide bomber hit a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy and killed 40 people, with a man being thrashed in New Delhi for allegedly raising anti-India slogans in a charged atmosphere. In another case, four paramedical students in Rajasthan were charged with sedition over social media posts following last week’s terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama... In Rajasthan’s Jaipur, four women paramedical students of Kashmiri-origin faced sedition charges and were suspended from a private institute for allegedly celebrating the Pulwama attack by posting an “anti-national” message on WhatsApp, officials said. Authorities in the National Institute of Medical Science (NIMS) told second-year students Talveen Manzoor, Iqra, Zohra Nazir and Uzma Nazir that their “act is grave and serious in nature”. The case against them was lodged after a complaint by the university. The students were booked under IPC sections 124A (sedition), 153A (promoting enmity) and other provisions of the Information Technology (IT) Act...'