Kashmiri student held on sedition charges

BENGALURU: A 22-year-old engineering student in Bengaluru who hails from Baramulla in Jammu & Kashmir has been booked for sedition. Thahir Shazad Latif is a 3rd year student of Reva College in Yelahanka.

Thahir had posted offensive images about the Pulwama attack on his Facebook page, police said.

Deputy commissioner of police (north-east) Kala Krishnaswamy said Thahir was produced before a local court on Saturday evening and is now in judicial custody.

He was picked up from the college hostel. “His FB posts were shared by his friends and it was forwarded to police. With the help of the cyber crime wing, we crosschecked the post and verified the source,” police said.