An FIR was registered against the students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) by the Aligarh police on Monday, October 9, for taking out a protest march in support of Palestine and Hamas on campus late Sunday, October 8, night, stated a report in The New Indian Express.
The case was registered on the basis of the complaint given by the local police station incharge.
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Amid the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine, various videos of about 400 AMU students of different streams chanting slogans in support of Palestine have been going viral on social media. As per the sources, during the protest, the students resorted to sloganeering such as “We stand for Palestine, AMU stands for Palestine.”
Their move was countered by Bajrang Dal workers, who also protested against the attack on Israel and burnt the effigy of Hamas militiamen.
While India has strongly condemned the Hamas attack on Israel, with PM Narendra Modi calling it a terror attack, the march by AMU students came under the scanner of not only the district police authorities but also the university administration.
The sources claimed that the pro-Palestine Muslim students were chanting slogans like Allah-u-Akbar, la ilaha illallah and Naar-e-Tadbir carrying placards with slogans against Israel and in support of Palestine. One such placard said, ‘AMU stand with Palestine, Free Palestine, this land is Palestine, not Israel’.
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