Police raid premises of Muslim boarding house

Prayagraj: District police lead by senior officials of the district police raided the premises of Muslim boarding house on Tuesday and seized around eight rooms of the hostel. Accompanied by officials of AU and the proctorial board, the police team search these rooms and later locked them.
According to superintendent of the hostel, Irfan Ahmed Khan, police had received some anonymous letters informing the police that some unscrupulous elements are residing in the hostel. On the letters, police swung into action and raided the premises of the hostel, on Tuesday morning.
Police searched the rooms before locking the same but nothing objectionable was found from the rooms that was locked. Khan also informed that since the student has paid the fee till June 30, all the inmates who are residing in the hostel have to submit their fee otherwise they will be declared illegal. The inmates have been given two days of time within which they have to submit the fee otherwise they will not be allowed to stay further in hostel and will have to evict their allotted rooms.
Meanwhile, Members of the Allahabad University (AU) unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad staged their protest on the campus of AU on the issue of recent fee hike by varsity administration along with 10 other demands.
The activists visited different departments of the Arts faculty and staged their protest by beating ‘thali’ and blowing conch shell. Different student leaders, of various students wings of the political parties, have been protesting on the campus from past over 20 days and demanding that AU should take back the decision of hiking the fee.
“Our activists have taken a vow that as long as AU authorities do not accept our demands ABVP would continue with its agitation”, said ABVP’s AU unit incharge, Alok Tripathi. The protest, which started at the campus from Monday from the office of the dean student welfare (DSW), will be intensified in the coming days, he added. ABVP’s AU unit president Shivam Singh said that these things would also create an atmosphere of positivity among the students towards the ongoing full-time movement, and the student community will also be able to come together in a non-violent manner and register their protest.
Large number of students also expressed their protest against the unethical fee hike by the university administration by clapping and playing thali and giving their moral support.