Two cricket teams have been booked and several players were reportedly detained for standing in honour of Pakistan’s national anthem being played before the start of a match in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district. The arrests were made after a video of the incident, which took place on January 3, went viral on social media. In the video, two cricket teams – one wearing green and another white – are purportedly seen standing in attention in two lines on either side of the pitch as ‘Pak Sarzameen’ played in the background. Police confirmed that they have booked the two teams but did not give details about the number of people who were arrested or the identity of the teams. “The teams have been booked,” said senior superintendent of police Bandipora, Sheikh Zulfikar Azad.

Source: Hindustan Times January 07, 2018 11:15 UTC