Primary school in India faces sedition charges over play on citizenship

A video shared on social media showed Shaheen Public School students talking about how they feared the government would ask millions of Muslims to prove their nationality or be expelled from India.- Screen cap/Twitter

NEW DELHI (AFP): 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 (Jan 29).

There have been widespread street demonstrations against the law introduced by the Hindu-nationalist government that grants citizenship to religious groups from three neighbouring countries, but excludes Muslims.