Violence at AMU over Jinnah portrait

Press Trust of India 

Police today lobbed teargas shells to disperse AMU students demanding the arrest of protesters who had barged into the campus, shouting slogans over a portrait of which hangs at the student union office.

Earlier, members of a right-wing organisation had briefly clashed with students and entered the campus.

They were then taken away to a police station from where they were later "rescued" by other protesters, AMU student union members said.

The protesters were agitated over the portrait of the founder which a local wanted removed.

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First Published: Wed, May 02 2018. 18:50 IST