Kashmiri youth arrested in Chhattisgarh for 'anti-national' post
Tauseef Ahmad Bhat, who works with a mobile company has been arrested on sedition charge for posting anti-national content.
Chhattisgarh police have arrested a youth from Jammu and Kashmir on sedition charge for posting anti-India content on his Facebook account.
Tauseef Ahmad Bhat, who works with a mobile company in Chhattisgarh's Durg district, was arrested by the police last night, Durg range Inspector General of Police Dipanshu Kabra said.
A group of local youths had lodged a complaint on August 2 that Bhat had shared anti-India content on the social media, the IG said.
After a preliminary investigation, a team of Durg police nabbed him from Jammu-Tawi Express at Sagar railway station in Madhya Pradesh when he was on his way to Kashmir.
A native of Sopore, Bhat graduated from a private engineering college in Bhilai in Durg district.
He has been booked under section 124 (a) of IPC (sedition), the IG said.