Another AMU student killed

The motive behind the killing remains unknown as the victim was not involved in campus politics.

About 7,000 students protested the killing before Vice-Chancellor Mohammad Salimuddin’s office on Thursday morning and accused the administration of allowing criminals on the campus. “Students even roughed up the Proctor last night in a fit of anger,” said Abrar.

The protesting students went on a rampage today, forcing closure of all university offices, and tried to barge into the Vice-Chancellor’s office. They also broke into the residential compound of Registrar Faizan Mustafa.

Following the violence, the Rapid Action Force (RAF) was deployed to avert any untoward incident.

While the administration cancelled all examinations on Thursday, hostels were also raided by officials to look for clues into the murder. In a meeting conducted late on Thursday evening, the administration also decided to postpone the Academic Council’s special meeting to be held on Friday. Examinations and classes for Friday too stand cancelled.

The Vice-Chancellor’s office is also in talks with teachers, students and police

officials to work out a plan to beef up security on the campus.

Sources said Proctor Akhlaq Ahmad, who is currently admitted in the university’s Nehru Medical College after a section of students roughed him up last night, had resigned. Abrar, however, declined to confirm the news. The Proctor was manhandled earlier this year too when students laid siege to his office for three days in February.

Earlier this month, Vice-Chancellor Nasim Ahmad, an IAS officer from the Haryana cadre, had resigned under pressure from university teachers who were critical of his “lenient” approach to crime on the campus. The teachers have been alleging that Ahmad wasn’t tough on criminal elements on the campus despite repeated incidents of violence among students and against faculty members.