AMU Teachers Association warns of agitation over delay in appointing regular vice-chancellor
Aligarh (UP) (PTI): Aligarh Muslim University Teachers Association and a few former officer bearers have warned of launching an agitation if there is any further delay in appointing a regular vice-chancellor.
Pro Vice-Chancellor Mohammad Gulrez has been officiating as AMU's vice-chancellor after Tariq Mansoor resigned from the post in April following his nomination as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.
Following a meeting of the office bearers here on Monday evening, the AMU Teachers Association, in a statement, said that it has been four months since Prof. Mansoor resigned from the post of vice-chancellor.
The university is functioning through an ad hoc arrangement under an acting vice-chancellor and it is seriously affecting the state of affairs at the premier institution of higher learning of the country, the teachers body said.
It announced that if the process of appointing a permanent vice-chancellor is delayed further, then they would have no option but to start an agitation.
The statement was also signed by former office bearers of the association.
Secretary of AMU Teachers' Association Obaid Ahmad Siddique told reporters on Tuesday that teachers at the university are increasingly getting concerned that despite continued efforts, the protracted process of setting up a panel from which the next vice-chancellor will be selected has not yet started.
This unprecedented delay in appointing a permanent vice chancellor would cause long-term damage to the institution, he said.
The executive committee of the AMU Teachers Association has also sent a letter to pro vice-chancellor Prof. Mohammad Gulrez and alleged that the delay in appointing a new vice-chancellor could be "deliberate".
The August 28 letter sought to know from Gulrez why has he not started the process of setting up a panel for selecting a vice-chancellor.
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Two arrested in K'taka for assaulting minors, uploading CSAM content
Bengaluru (PTI): Two men were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two minor girls, recording the acts on mobile phones and uploading the videos online as child sexual abuse material, police said on Thursday.
The accused have been identified as Kiran Kumar (29), hailing from Chitradurga district, and Aditya M K (20), hailing from Shivamogga district, they said.
A probe was initiated after information was received from the NCRP portal regarding a suspected instance of creation of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) for online dissemination, police said.
Accordingly, a case was registered at Kaggalipura Police Station under relevant sections of the IT Act on May 10, they added.
Investigation revealed that two minor girl victims were exploited and videos were created and uploaded to the internet. The child victims have subsequently recorded their statements as per procedure and further necessary legal steps have been taken, Pronab Mohanty Director General of Police, Cyber Command, said in a statement.
Based on the statements of the victims, the accused persons, who allegedly assaulted the minors, recorded the acts on mobile phones and uploaded the videos online, were arrested, he said.
Following the probe, sections 65(2) (rape) and 70 (gangrape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, along with relevant sections of the POCSO Act, have been added to the FIR, police said.
Officials collected relevant information and on May 12, arrested the accused persons and seized three mobile phones belonging to them, in which the videos had allegedly been recorded, he said.
The accused were later produced before the court and taken into police custody for further investigation, he added.
According to him, in CSAM cases, police usually apprehend offenders who have downloaded such content or have kept them in their possession after obtaining them from elsewhere, usually the internet.
"The present case is one of the very few instances where content creators and uploaders have been apprehended," Mohanty added.
