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Former student shot dead, proctor’s office torched in violence at AMU

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Violence erupted at the Aligarh Muslim University campus late on Saturday night following a clash between two student groups in which a former student was killed.

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The clash prompted authorities to step up security and deploy Rapid Action Force at the campus.

Trouble started when a resident of Mumtaz hostel was assaulted and his room was set afire, DIG Aligarh range Govind Agarwal, who led the police operations, said.

The complainant rushed to the proctor’s office to file his complaint. As soon as news of the incident spread students belonging to the two rival factions gathered and a clash broke out.

Police said that a former student named Mehtaab was shot dead late last night near the proctor’s office where the warring groups exchanged fire with each other.

The rampaging students set afire a jeep and over half-a-dozen bikes. The mob also indulged in arson and set afire the proctor’s office.

The violence was so widespread that it took the police nearly two hours to defuse the situation at different spots of the campus.

An official of AMU said that trouble between rival groups belonging to Azamgarh and Sambhal regions has been simmering since quite some time now.

Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Daljeet Singh Chaudhary on Sunday said they have identified the perpetrators responsible for the violence at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus late last night.

“A violent incident took place last night in which one person succumbed to bullet injury and the other is critically injured. The police reached the spot immediately after getting the news. We are acting in accordance with the university officials. Those behind this crime have been identified, an FIR has also been lodged and we would soon be able to nab the masterminds,” Chaudhary said.

“The Rapid Action Force has been deployed at all sensitive spots especially in view of the entrance test for the engineering college scheduled today,” he added.

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