A verbal spat between two students led to a group clash on the Aligarh Muslim University campus and left an ex-student dead and another with serious injuries on Saturday evening.
The irate students also set fire to the Proctor's office and several vehicles parked there.
The violence started at Aftab Hall last evening when two groups of students came to a head over a trivia near Maulana Azad library canteen. Mohsin of an inmate of Mumtaz hostel was beaten up. later their supporters joined in and engaged in a full fledged face off, traded bullets and indulged in arson later on Satuday night. The rampaging students also set fire to the Proctor's office and two vehicles parked outside it.
It later surfaced that an ex-student identified as Mehtab was killed while another identified as
Mohammad Waqif was injured in the incident. The injured was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi for specialiseed treatment. Mehtab of Ghazipur district (UP) was earlier expelled by the varsity authorities for some misconduct.
DIG (Aligarh Range) Govind Agarwal said that the situation in the AMU campus was tense but under control. "A large contingent of police has been deputed at the campus to avert any exigency. Am FIR has been registered against eight people but no arrests has been made so far," the officer said.