Police drops sedition charges against 14 AMU students
February 22, 2019  18:34
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The police have dropped sedition charges slapped against 14 Aligarh Muslim University after the recent protests on the campus, citing 'lack of evidence'.

The students were booked for sedition after Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha district president Mukesh Lodhi alleged he was assaulted by some students who chanted pro-Pakistan slogans, police said.

Senior Superintendent of Police Akash Kulhari said on Friday the charges were dropped three days ago as there is no evidence to support them.

He said there is no videographic proof or any other evidence 'to support the claim that anti-India or pro-Pakistan slogans were raised by these boys during the clash between two student groups at University Circle on February 12'.

The clashes appeared to have been triggered by reports that All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader Asaduddin Owaisi was visiting the campus.

Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing BJYM had demanded that the reported visit should be banned.

There was also an altercation between some AMU students and a television news crew that had come to cover the anticipated visit, which never took place.

Meanwhile, the police raided a house in Noida on Friday, looking for Kashmiri student Basin Hilal over a tweet mocking the security forces after the Pulwama terror attack.

They failed to find the student who has already been suspended by the AMU authorities.

A case under Section 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups) of the Indian Penal Code had been registered against him.   -- PTI
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