Kashmiri students sedition case: Special police team formed to probe

Team Udayavani, Feb 22, 2020, 11:45 AM IST

Hubballi: A separate police team has been constituted by the district police to look into the sedition case filed against three Kashmiri students.

Reportedly, a team headed by an officer of Deputy Superintendent of Police rank visited Hindalaga Central Jail at Belagavi where the accused are housed.

The trio, students of a private engineering college, were arrested on Saturday for raising pro-Pakistan slogans and posting it on social media on the first anniversary of the terrorist attack that left scores of CRPF soldiers dead at Pulwama in Kashmir.

Basit Aashiq Sofi from Baramulla, Talib Majeed and Amir Mohiuddin from Anantnag, students of civil engineering at KLE Institute of Technology in Hubballi, were given over to judicial custody till March 3 by judge Pushpa Jogoji