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UP varsity expels 10 J-K students for cheering Pak cricket team
Bismah Malik
Tribune News Service

Srinagar, May 23
A Meerut-based university today expelled 10 Kashmiri students who were caught in a row over cheering for the Pakistan team during an India-Pakistan match two months ago. The varsity revoked the suspension of 57 others.

The disciplinary committee of Swami Vivekanand Subharti University found the 10 students guilty of “misconduct and damaging property” on March 2. University vice-chancellor Manzoor Ahmad told The Tribune that the expelled students were currently taking their annual exams. “Once the exams are over, they will be sent back home,” he said, adding that they would be issued migration certificates. He said 57 other Kashmiri students, however, had been relieved of all charges of indiscipline and would continue to study in the university.

He said these students were found guilty of raising anti-national slogans and damaging the university hostel’s furniture.

“We allowed them to take the exams because their academic year was at stake, but they can no longer continue to study in the university,” Ahmad said, ruling out the possibility of expulsion of the non-Kashmiri students with whom the Kashmiri students had entered 
into a brawl.

“There were no clashes between student groups,” the Vice-Chancellor of the university said.