AMU students booked for burning effigies of PM Modi, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath

Police have booked about 21 students for burning effigies of PM Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah a...Read More
AGRA: Nearly 21 students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) were booked by Aligarh police on Tuesday for burning effigies of prime minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath in the campus last evening.
According to police, the group of students, eight of whom have been identified, had also written slogans of - "Hinduatva terror down down Islamophobia Yogi" on the effigies and were shouting anti-religion slogans while burning the effigies in the campus.
Civil Lines Circle officer Anil Samaniya said that the students have been booked under Section 6 of UP Special Power Act 1932 and Section 153A (Promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion) of IPC at Civil Lines police station.
The identified students are Ammar Ahmad, Amirull Jaish, Nadeem haidar, Ashif Hussain, Farhan, and Nihad PV.
Meanwhile, Aligarh police, also issued notices to 153 people including women to sign a bond, agreeing that would be liable to face legal action if any untoward incident takes place outside Shahjamal Idgah, where a large number of women have been on a sit-in for the last one week against the CAA and NRC.
According to police, men, who are providing logistic support to the protesting women, have also been issued notices.
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