Indian NIA court sentences three Kashmiri students to 10 years in jail under UAPA
Srinagar: A court of India’s notorious National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sentenced three Kashmiri students to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
According to Kashmir Media Service, the NIA court in Mohali of Indian state, Punjab, sentenced three students from Pulwama district of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir—Zahid Gulzar, Yasir Rafiq Butt, and Mohammed Idrees Shah—to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment in connection with a 2018 UAPA case.
The students were arrested by Indian police from their hostel at CT Institute’s Shahpur Campus in Jalandhar, Punjab, on October 10, 2018. They were convicted on charges of criminal conspiracy by Indian police under the UAPA and the Explosives Act.
Indian police, while justifying the arrests, claimed to have recovered one AK rifle with two magazines and 54 rounds of ammunition, one Mauser pistol with two magazines and 31 rounds, and approximately one kilogram of explosives from their possession. The police alleged that the students were planning to carry out unlawful activities.
One of the convicted students, Yasir Rafiq Butt, is a cousin of prominent martyred Kashmiri liberation leader Zakir Musa.
