Indians celebrating a victory of Pakistan

Indians celebrating a victory of Pakistan

The Indian police withdrew this charge to the 15 people, although they are still detained accused of criminal conspiracy and disruption of public order 

Police withdrew the charges for sedition filed against 15 Indians in the state of Madhya Pradesh, in central India, for celebrating a victory for Pakistan in a cricket match, although detainees still accused of criminal conspiracy, Efe reported today police source

The defendants, all of them Muslims, were arrested last Monday in the village of Mohad, in the Burhanpur district, after Pakistan's victory on India on Sunday in the final of the prestigious Cricket Champions Trophy for delivering insults against the team Indian and shout "anti-national" slogans.

The detention of young people generated great controversy in the country after it was known that the Police had accused them of sedition.

"These arrests are absurd and the 15 men should be released immediately," Amnesty International (AI) director in India, Asmita Basu, said in a statement issued this week in which he argued that the sedition law should be abolished. for being "generic and vague" and threatening freedom of expression.

According to section 124A of the Indian Criminal Code, a crime of sedition incurs who "generates or attempts to generate hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite discontent

In the last year and a half there have been several cases in India in which the sedition law, a rule of the British colonial era, has been invoked to respond to protests and criticisms against the Government and groups of Hindu nationalist line.

An Indian actress and politician was denounced last August before a court for saying that "Pakistan is not hell."

Days before AI was also denounced by sedition after allegedly slogans were launched against the Indian Army and the country during a demonstration against human rights violations in Indian Kashmir.

India and Pakistan have maintained a dispute over the Kashmir region since their independence from the British Empire in 1947, for which they have fought two wars and several minor conflicts, with repeated violations of the ceasefire on the de facto border in this region.