AMU students stage protest march against police action on anti-CAA protesters in Chennai and Kafeel Khan arrest

AGRA: A score of students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) took out a solidarity march in the campus on Sunday in protest against the arrest of Dr Kafeel Khan, who was booked by Aligarh police under National Security Act (NSA), and threatened to launch and mass campaign if the doc turned anti CAA activist is not released. The students also protested against the police action against anti-citizenship protesters in Chennai.
After the march medical students along with AMU Students coordination committee submitted a memorandum, addressed to President Ram Nath Kovind, to the local administrative authorities, demanding revocation of NSA on Dr Kafeel Khan and appropriate action against Chennai police brutality. Students threatened to go for a mass protest, if NSA is not revoked against Dr Khan and no appropriate action against Chennai police brutality with in 72 hours.
In the memorandum, students stated “We the students of AMU condemn the Chennai police brutality and seek immediate revocation of NSA on Khan. We demand a judicial inquiry and immediate action into the matter as freedom of speech in our fundamental right”.
AMU Students Coordination Committee member Faizul Khan claimed that district authorities violated the Supreme Court ruling which stated that a person can not be booked under NSA if he has already been granted bail by the court. He told media that there was a judgement in this regard in case of Ramesh Yadav Vs District Magistrate Etah in 1986. He said, “I urge the district authorities to kindly go through it once and revoke NSA on Dr Khan,” he added.