BIDAR: Indian police have launched a sedition investigation against a primary school over a play that allegedly criticised a contentious citizenship law, officials said on Wednesday. Police said they were laying initial charges under the British colonial-era law against the principal and the management of the school in Bidar district in the southern state of Karnataka. A school official told AFP they were being “unnecessarily” targeted by the government for expressing their views. The citizenship law, combined with a mooted national register of citizens, has stoked fears that India’s 200 million Muslims will be marginalised. The British-era sedition law enacted in 1860 carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.

Source: Pakistan Today January 29, 2020 10:18 UTC