NO PROOF OF SEDITION AGAINST AMU STUDENTS, SAY COPS
ALIGARH : The Aligarh police were yet to find primary evidence against 14 students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) who were booked for sedition. While investigations were on, students on Thursday staged a protest over the “severe charges” against their peers. Meanwhile, the district administration restored Internet services in the city. “We are yet to find primary evidence for sedition charges against the AMU students. Investigations are in preliminary stages and we are taking note of the facts coming across,” said SSP (Aligarh) Aakash Kulhari.
ALIGARH:The Aligarh police were yet to find primary evidence against 14 Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students who were booked for sedition. Meanwhile, students on Thursday staged a protest over the ‘severe charges’ against their peers.
The teachers’ association (AMUTA) also opposed sedition charges against the students and sought the President’s intervention.
Meanwhile, the district administration restored internet services in the city.
SSP Aakash Kulhari supervised security arrangements at the AMU Circle.
“We are yet to find primary evidence for sedition charges against the AMU students. Investigations are in preliminary stages and we are taking note of the facts coming across,” stated Kulhari.
To recall, two FIRs were registered after the violence on the AMU campus on Tuesday. One was lodged by a woman reporter of a TV channel against the security officer of AMU and students. The other one was lodged by BJYM district president Mukesh Singh Lodhi against the 14 students after a bullet struck his car.
The SSP admitted that many complaints were received for being treated as FIR but internal bickering between students’ groups could not be treated as FIR.
After the AMUTA sought suo motu cognizance by the President of India on the issue of sedition charges, the AMUSU on Thursday also sought the President’s intervention.
Signed by AMUSU president M Salman Imtiaz, vice-president Hamza Sufiyan and secretary Huzaifa Aamair, the letter was addressed to Ram Nath Kovind.
“There have been repeated attacks on the AMU by right wing forces and some section of the media with the intention of maligning the university over false charges,” read the letter by AMUSU.
“Fourteen students have been falsely booked on charges of seven serious crimes including sedition. This has left the students of AMU ‘hurt’ and ‘offended’.
The university has been declared an ‘institution of importance’ and its students have always stood for the country. Repeatedly questioning our loyalty to the country is an insult not only to students but also to the Constitution,” stated the letter.