AMU tense over student Killing, RAF deployed

Unidentified assailants on motorcycles shot dead Qausar Faliq, a B. Tech final year student who was studying at the university's chemical engineering department. As news of the killing spread, a group of students allegedly assaulted university proctor Akhlaq Ahmed, who had to be hospitalised late Wednesday. Ahmed, however, was discharged from hospital Thursday morning. This is a second incident in a month who take the life of a student. Earlier a student from Orissa was killed at a roadside tea stall when he was caught in a shootout between two groups.

Ali, described by his class mates and friends as a “brilliant” student had gone to the campus to give some notes to a friend at the Department of Petrochemical Studies where the shooting took place. He was declared dead at the Nehru Medical College.