According to AMU officials, the team comprising deputy proctor Prof Rashid Umar, assistant proctors Mohd Mohsin and Rashid Ali will submit their report at the earliest. All of them were booked under sections 147 (riot), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of IPC.In another development, AMU constituted a three-member fact-finding committee on Friday to inquire into the February 12 clash that led to suspension of eight students. A total of 14 students, including AMU students’ union president Salman Imtiaz, vice-president Humza Sufyan, secretary Hufaiza Aamir, former president of the union Maskoor Ahmed, former secretary Nadeem Ansari and other unidentified students, were booked for sedition.Meanwhile, another FIR was registered on a complaint by AMU’s security officer Azeem Akhtar against six persons, including four AMU students -- LLM student Ajay Singh, who is the grandson of Aligarh BJP MLA Dalveer Singh, two BTech students, Pavan Jadon and Manish Kumar, MSc student Aman Sharma – and Aligarh BJP’s media incharge Nishit Sharma. “But investigations are still on and the charges stand as of now,” he added.In his complaint, Sharma has also claimed that the accused had allegedly fired upon him and his associates when he reached the AMU circle after receiving a call from Hindu students of the varsity.The previous FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint filed by BJP Yuva Morcha district president Mukesh Lodhi, who had claimed that anti-national slogans were raised by the accused students after an altercation on the campus on February 12. Agra: A day after Aligarh police chief said that no prima facie evidence had been found thus far to support sedition charges against 14 Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students, another case of rioting and attempt to murder was filed against four varsity students late on Thursday night.The FIR was registered on a complaint of BJP’s Aligarh unit media incharge Nishit Sharma, who alleged that AMU students’ union secretary Huzaifa Amir, former union secretary Nadeem Ansari, Nabeel Usmani, Farukh Lodhi and a few others, including former student Saddam Hussain and some unidentified persons, had assaulted him and his associate Shailendra Singh.Though Sharma had alleged in his complaint that the accused were also shouting anti-national and pro-Pakistan slogans, local police did not press sedition charges this time.Aligarh senior superintendent of police Akash Kulhari told TOI, “We have been cautious this time.” The SSP said that no prima facie evidence of sedition had been found thus far even in the previous FIR.
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