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This is an archive article published on December 8, 1999

Additional forces on AMU campus

DECEMBER 7: Additional forces on AMU campusFresh incidents of violence were reported from the campus in which the provost's office at the ...

DECEMBER 7: Additional forces on AMU campus

Fresh incidents of violence were reported from the campus in which the provost’s office at the Ross Masood and M M Hall were damaged and office records and furniture destroyed, police said.

University officials said the miscreants, moving mostly on motorbikes, also used petrol bombs.

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The university campus has been witnessing sporadic incidents of violence since the past one week even as Rapid Action Force personnel patrolled the campus following arrest of six of the students who stormed the proctor’s office and tried to lay siege to a police station here last Saturday.

The violence follows a boycott call of the first term examinations given by a section of students.

IG Police (Kanpur range), U K Bansal, has reached the university campus to take stock of the situation, police said .

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