The Vice Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), lt Gen (Retd) Zameer Uddin Shah received serious injuries after being hit by a four wheeler on Tuesday. later, local police arrested the driver and recovered the vehcile used for running over.
"VC was using a bicycle for going to his office daily and was on the way to his office, when the red colour car as bearing number UP81-AP-8802, entailing his bicycle hit him and tried to push him deliberately to the extreme side of the road in front of the University Guest House No. 2, close to the Bab-e-Syed (University Gate)," said Public Relations Officer, AMU, Dr Rahat Abrar.
The VC was rushed to the Emergency of JN Medical College Hospital where after several examinations including X-ray and CT Scan. It was found that his fourth and fifth ribs had received fracture and the lower knee of his left leg was badly bruised which caused bleeding. VC's gunner, Irfanuddin, who was only a few steps behind the VC on a bicycle when the incident took place. He has lodged an FIR with the Civil lines Police Station.
Additional District Magistrate (ADM-City), DS Sachan, CO (Civil lines) and SHO, Civil lines Police Station rushed to Medical College and enquired about the incident. "The police had arrested the driver and the vechile used for hitting VC," ADM-City, DS Sachan told The Pioneer over phone. Several officials of the AMU inlcuding Pro-Vice Chancellor, Brigadier (Retd) S Ahmad Ali, Registrar, Group Captain (Retd) Shahrukh Shamshad and the Proctor, Dr. Jamshed Siddiqui along with his Proctorial team rushed also to the hospital.