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ROORKEE: A case has been registered on Wednesday against seven Kashmiri students, including two girls, who were earlier suspended from a private institute in Roorkee for allegedly posting “anti-national remarks” on social media. The students, aided by members of a right-wing group, gathered in the campus of Quantum institute, which is owned by BJP leader Anil Goyal, on Tuesday and had threatened to leave unless the Kashmiri students were expelled. The students have been booked under sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (Rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 427 (mischief), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.On Tuesday, over 400 students of Quantum Institute had demanded the expulsion of the students for allegedly posting anti-national slogans on their Facebook and Instagram . The students from Quantum Institute were booked under sections 153 A (promotes or attempts to promote disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will) and 505 (2) (public mischief) of the IPC, DG (law and order) Ashok Kumar said.Police also registered a case against 400 unidentified students of the institute after the university’s vice chancellor Professor Vivek Kumar registered a complaint with police against the students of the institute indulging in vandalism..