Uttarakhand Ayurved University has denied permission to Mehraj, first year student in BAMS course for appearing in the final examination of Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) since he was arrested in connection with links with the terror outfit Islamic State by Delhi police special cell. He was first year student of BAMS in Rishikul Ayurvedic college in Haridwar and is still in judicial custody along with his three accomplices who happen to be students in other colleges.

Mentionworthy here that four students were arrested from Manglore and landhora regions of Roorkee in Hardwar district on January 19 in a joint operation of Delhi and Haridwar police.  Akhlaq Rehman was the key operative of ISIS and the other three were Mohammad Azim, Osama and Mohammad Mehraj.

According to the Delhi police, they had planned terror strikes in Haridwar during Ardhkumbh fair and had conducted reconnaissance of Haridwr railway station and passed other vital information of important places of Haridwar to their chiefs in Syria and Iran. They were brought to Haridwar on police remand and the police recovered inflammable substance from Jaurasi village and around `40,000 was recovered from the Mehraj house. Currently, the four accused are in judicial custody.

The principal of RIshikul Ayurvedic college, A N Pandey told The Pioneer, “We have received a letter from the university in which Mehraj has been denied the permission to appear in the final examination of BAMS. He was studying in first year in our college and was absent for quite some time before being arrested. The final examination started from February 15 in the college and would continue till March next month added the Principal.