UP police chief OP Singh: Evacuating Aligarh University today, sending all students home

The Uttar

Pradesh police chief OP Singh on Monday said the Aligarh Muslim University

campus would be evacuated on Monday and all students would be sent home, sources

said.

The

statement came a day after students at the university clashed with the police on

Sunday late night. The AMU students were holding a march in solidarity with

their counterparts at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia.

“We are evacuating AMU today, we will send all students home,” UP Director General of Police OP Singh said. “We have received no reports of any vandalism by the police,” he said.

Singh said

around 15 students have been arrested and the police would identify and act

against everyone who indulged in violence.

Internet has

been blocked in the city and the university closed till January 5.

On Sunday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath appealed for calm and hit out at “unscrupulous elements spreading rumors about citizenship act”.