Internet suspended for 24 hours in Aligarh following AMU clash

  • | Wednesday | 13th February, 2019

Agra: Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were imposed and internet services ordered suspended for 24 hours in Aligarh district on Wednesday following a clash between groups of students in AMU a day before. Several students were injured in the campus violence.Internet services, district officials said, will be resumed at 12 noon on Thursday after a review of the situation. "They then disrupted communal harmony of the campus by involving outsiders for their vested interests," the statement said.Action by the university was taken on the complaint filed by Imran Khan. The office memo read: “Prima facie it is established that these students have committed acts of indiscipline and misconduct as per AMU rules.”Manish Kumar, who has been suspended on the complaint filed by Imran, filed a counter complaint against the latter. Moreover, these students along with their companions created chaos at Baba E-Syed gate and the university's administration block.

Agra: Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC were imposed and internet services ordered suspended for 24 hours in Aligarh district on Wednesday following a clash between groups of students in AMU a day before. Several students were injured in the campus violence.Internet services, district officials said, will be resumed at 12 noon on Thursday after a review of the situation. They said this was done as a precautionary measure in order to curb circulation of rumours and fake news on social media websites.Talking to TOI, district magistrate CB Singh said that the administration has decided to release posters of culprits who allegedly tried to vitiate the atmosphere, broke the camera of a TV journalist and set a vehicle ablaze inside the campus. Photographs are being reproduced from CCTV footage seized by police, he added.Meanwhile, eight students, including Ajay Singh, an LLM student at AMU and grandson of Aligarh BJP MLA Dalveer Singh, were suspended for indiscipline and misconduct by the university till the inquiry ordered against them was complete. Their entry has also been banned in the campus.According to an office memo issued on Wednesday, students Manish Kumar, Ajay Singh, Aman Sharma and Pawan Jadon with other unidentified persons "repeatedly threatened and snatched the bag and valuables of Imran Khan, another pupil, on Tuesday". Moreover, these students along with their companions created chaos at Baba E-Syed gate and the university's administration block. "They then disrupted communal harmony of the campus by involving outsiders for their vested interests," the statement said.Action by the university was taken on the complaint filed by Imran Khan. The office memo read: “Prima facie it is established that these students have committed acts of indiscipline and misconduct as per AMU rules.”Manish Kumar, who has been suspended on the complaint filed by Imran, filed a counter complaint against the latter. Manish said that it was Imran and his friends who abused and assaulted him.

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