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AMU row: Jamia students lend support to agitating protesters

AMU row: Jamia students lend support to agitating protesters

Masked men assault guards outside AMU proctor's house

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Jamia Millia Islamia student leaders said they were going to Aligarh to support their friends

More than two dozen students of New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university today left for the Aligarh Muslim University to lend their support to agitating students.

Jamia student leaders said they were going to Aligarh to support their friends.

A few student leaders have reached Allahabad to register a case against the Aligarh Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in the high court.

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The students allege that the Aligarh incident took place because of the carelessness of the current SSP and the police authorities.

Jamia student leader Mirhan Haidar is leading the group of students of the university.

The row is over presence of Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait in the student's union office of Aligarh Muslim University.

Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Aligarh MP Satish Gautam was the first to question the portrait's presence in the office, which has been there for decades.

The matter soon escalated as protests took place outside the university campus, followed by clashes between AMU students and the police, on Wednesday.