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Mohammad Shakeel, a second-year MA student, and Zia-Ur-Rehman (third year BA) were arrested on Sunday.
Jamia Vice-Chancellor Mushirul Hasan told Newsline in the evening that he would take steps to look into the “well being” of his students.
Jamia’s media coordinator Rakhshanda Jalil told Newsline, “The university has now decided to provide legal help to the two students caught on Sunday.” Since the two are students of Jamia, “the university feels it is a responsibility to safeguard them until they are proven guilty.”
The announcement came soon after the university had announced suspension of Shakeel and Rehman.
A large section of the faculty and students’ community in the university was earlier rumbling over the varsity authorities’ refusal to take a stand on the arrests. What made matters worse, several teachers and students said, was the fact that the university does not have a students’ union.
“Jamia does not have a students’ body that can fight for the students’ rights,” an agitated professor had told Newsline this morning. “After Friday’s encounter, no one can now speak openly about the students, or the incident at Jamia Nagar, since they feel they might be the next target of the police, in which case the university will not come forward to help them.
“Everyone is afraid of a crackdown.”
The teachers and students were concerned about the fact that on Saturday the university had refused to acknowledge that the two were studying at Jamia.
On Friday morning, Jamia had issued a statement saying, “On the basis of prima facie information the University will consider initiating disciplinary action against these students.”
Asked why the university did not immediately come out and say Shakeel and Rehman were enrolled in the university, media coordinator Jalil said the police never contacted the university directly. “All our information was filtered from the media,” she said. As for Atif, “we could not verify him earlier because he was enrolled under the name of Mohammad Atif Amin.”
Jamia will hold a peace march in and around the areas surrounding the university at 4 pm on Wednesday. Students, teachers, staff members and residents of Jamia Nagar are expected to join the peace rally.


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A TERRORIST HELP TERRORIST.IS THERE IS ANY GOVERNMENT IN INDIA ?
Anybody who has lived in india knows how our police works. How unaccountable they are and how easily they can create a case against anybody they want when dealing with "pressure from above" to find the culprit. implicating, murdering innocents just to keep their record looking good before their superiors. Today the common indian has absolutely no faith in the words of a policeman. They say they nabbed the people behind the terrorist attack - and right away in the minds of 90% of indians the question that comes up is -which poor innocent muslims did they pick up this time, while the real culprits might already be in Dubai. Such is the lack of public trust in indian police and intelligence apparatus. It is a system with no honor, no accountability, no humanity and certainly no patriotism.
Actually this is the expected tactic move. Our secular politics allow such things. The net of terrorism is complex. Terrorist are not misguided youth as projected by our leaders . They are well guided well trained
Mr. Mushirul hassan should provide legal assistance from his pocket and not use public funds for defending persons accused of terror.
It must be noted that the guilt of the two students haven,t been proven yet, all the hype created is mere speculations (may be hypothetical even) of the Delhi police under the pressure to act quick. Any person not proven of guilt should be supported, legally, to bail out if innocent. If under such circumstance jamia comes to lend a helping hand then its no wrong and nothing to raise an issue of. Just consider if next day you're caught in a case you were never involved and you're being framed then won't you expect and wish that your univ or college or your friends stand for you??Friends, don't buy the words of police as it is.. have your minds open... if the guilt is proven in the 'court' and not in police discussion room then surely they need to be punished. Please don't take their right to prove their innocence and their right to be helped.. Don't be blind.. Act responsibly, let aside the prejudice, fight against terror and not a community.
What non sense is going on. Musharil Hussain is openly suporting terrorists who are plotting against one's own country. Musharil Hussain must be immediately thrown out of the university. Such people aid terrorista organisation which are then emboldened to carry out more such henious attacks whch kill innocents.
University Ho toh Aisi Ho! Wah! and this is the university that is funded by us tax-payers??!! University has no obligation to pay or support the legal fees of its students especially such kind of students who face charges of treason.
Sir, The university must have taken care to keep away from terrorism related students in their roll.No other university in India has done such a bad step,such as giving legal help. Today it may be legal help,tomorrow it may be even sheltering them.The Jamia university has lost its reputation, if it had any
A university established under an act of parlialment/Lok Sabha has no business defending those of its students who might be under suspicion or custody of the law enforcement authorities of the land.A more ridiculous situation cannot be imagined......an institution established and funded by the nation thinks it is its duty to provide legal help to students accused of being involved in terror activities! Are we a secular nation at all?Or is secularism another word for anti India activities?
This refers to the report ‘Jamia to provide legal help to two arrested students’ 23/09. By any yardstick, it is a perplexing decision. Just because the two suspect students happened to be students of the Jamia Millia Islamia, it doesn’t entitle them to have any association with a terrorist group. The matter is under investigation and the police has the unfettered right to interrogate the terror suspects and their associates. There is, however, no logic in the University’s decision to provide them legal help under pressure from religiously motivated group sympathetic to the two students. It will become well-nigh impossible for the state to take action against any suspect and the Police to interrogate any terror suspect if institutional support is forthcoming in such cases. Already, ii is being alleged by the coreligionist neighbourhood that the Jamia encounter in which 2 terror suspects and an Inspector of Police lost their lives was a fake encounter...
Jamia Vice-Chancellor Mushirul Hasan's decission to help his terroist students does not go well at this juncture.His support to his students amounts to him supporting terroists.No educated and successful muslim personality has condem these acts of voilence.till date.Shabani Azami fell proud to say that since she is a muslim she was denied to purchase flats in Mumbai.If this is how educated and popular muslim personalites behave in times of crisisthen how can they blame others that they are misunrerstood?
Providing legal advice to its students can be taken to be within the responsibilities, or atleast a matter of interest to the university. But I fail to understand what the students and teachers are trying to prove. What exactly do they protest against?
well what is next, university allocating travel and expense funds to terrorists until they are proven guilty. where is this country heading to.
Government should examine whether universities can get involved in terrorist or criminal cases. Educational institutions should stay out of scuh cases.
Every one has a right to be defended.Only point is if these students' involvement is proved beyond doubt, Jamia should recover the cost from thier parents since university funds can not be used to defend a criminal on thier role.It looks as if it is the fault of this country that all those terrorist caught happen to have muslim names and the community feels outraged
I feel that we shud leave it to Judiciary and security agencies to do their job,blaming Police isn't correct.Let Jamia imaprt education to students and donot play politics.People those who donot have faith in law of land cannot be called citizens of India.We are democracy but this doesn't give anyone an right to blame security agencies without any basis who carry out their duty with utmost risk and sacrifice..Jamia pl keep off..
I think this is a right step.I dont say that they are terrorists or not, but we need to make our police more accountable and intelligence strong. Then once proved they should be punished.But Basic need is to make the intelligence strong, though they claim they have captured so many people behind,but who can guarantee that there will be no more blasts?We should provide justice to everyone.
Since minority institiutions are being used for terror networks, it is prudent to engage the police in cross checking their credentials and put the onus on University authorities for fostering ant--national activities and risk closing and dereconition, when it becomes a social menace than reinforcing community welfare. Entire faculty and students of Jamia and Aligarh need police vetting to stop the rise of future killers.
is it the religion responsible for their plight
The whole encounter story doesnt really add up well and the fact that Insp Rajbir, boss and close aly of Insp Sharma was shot dead by his 'companions' a month back. This could be yet another fake encounter/mistaken fire case. Police claims of confessions have no value in front of the law and it should be noted that those police officials like karnal singh who make such claims have been warned by courts multiple times for creating fake charges and evidence against innocent. Again, there is no inquiry into the recent blast at Bajrang Dal office in MH (when preparing bombs) have clear link to to all the blasts that happened in bangalore gujrat and delhi. All of them used the same chemicalsl and building patterns. In another twist Karnataka police arrested a bajrang dal leader called kamath from Karnataka with huge stock of deadly explosives. later claimed to be legal. No inquiry is made into any of these. In this juncture jamia should give legal help these students until proven guilty.
according to islam it is not wrong to kill, so no muslim sees it as a crime
This type of "advice" based on half-baked and ill-considered thinking is only to be expected from "professors" who have themselves come out of, and are now ruthlessly promoting, an academic system that has inexorably diluted the rigours, and hence the meaningfulness, of a Doctorate in Philosophy tag that they so "proudly" but rather undeservedly carry, especially in the social sciences and the humanities in India. The critical thinking qualities of such "professors" have never been tested, let alone developed, for them to be able to provide the level of wise counsel that one would expect of such "intellectuals." This is the bigger tragedy that our country faces: the withering away of the "thinking" infrastructure of our country and poses a very serious issue for the long-term health and well-being of our society. Unfortunately, the Knowledge Commission charged with "rectifying" this situation is lead by a technocrat rather than any acknowledged intellectual
Where is secularism now? The univeristy is openly supporting an accused i n a henious crime. Is secularism and patriotism only one way traffic ? Our rights activitists and minority pampers should now speak out. Supporting terrorits and banned organisation should be made punishable r with death.
It looks university stepping out of its limits under pressure and setting a bad example. Most likely it will back fire on them in future as more of such cases emerge. I am sure that som eof unscrupulus elements will take advantage of this and university will soon become breeding groud for terrorits.
Jamia Milia University is Arjun Singh's favourite baby. Do doubt they can indulge in sheer comunalism and behave so irresponsibly. The silence of the moderates from the Muslim community is deafining. Or are they extinct ?