India charges cricket fans with sedition

A group of Kashmiri students in India is facing charges of sedition for apparently cheering the country's arch rival Pakistan in a cricket match. The students of a university in Uttar Pradesh state were suspended at the weekend after the Asia Cup match in which Pakistan defeated India. A sedition charge carries a three-year prison term in India. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the charge against the students was "unacceptably harsh". "I believe what the students did was wrong and misguided but they certainly didn't deserve to have charges of sedition slapped against them," Mr Abdullah tweeted. He said the punishment would "ruin their [students'] futures and will further alienate them", according to BBC.