UP police vs AMU students: 20 FIRs in 4 years, all based on police complaints
Sumedha Mittal | 30 November 2023 | Newslaundry
If you’re a student of Aligarh Muslim University and you’re critical of the government in power, consider yourself warned.
Newslaundry found that since 2019, the Uttar Pradesh police lodged 20 FIRs against AMU students for protests or social media posts critical of the government, its policies, or right-wing ideologies. The FIRs were filed against 175 named students and 1,600 unnamed students. Most of them were Muslim.
All 20 FIRs are based on complaints from the police themselves.
At least four faculty and administrative personnel, three of whom are part of AMU’s executive council, blame former vice-chancellor, Tarikh Mansoor, for propagating a culture of not protecting his students.
It was under Mansoor’s tenure that in December 2019, the UP police brutally assaulted students on campus. Newslaundry had reported at the time that the police entered the campus after receiving written permission from the registrar.