In a forceful and blunt interview, one of the most illustrious former Supreme Court Judges has said celebrating a Pakistan cricket victory over India is “definitely not sedition and it’s ridiculous to think it is”. Justice Deepak Gupta said the tweet from the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s office stating that Kashmiri students in Agra who celebrated Pakistan’s World Cup victory over India would be charged with sedition is “a tweet against the law of the land”. More importantly, he added, the tweet “is not a responsible statement, it is an irresponsible statement”.
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