Five AMU professors booked for keeping black buck in captivity
Jul 12, 2011, 03.30pm
LUCKNOW: An FIR has been registered against five professors of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) for allegedly keeping a black buck in captivity at the varsity campus in Aligarh, police said here on Tuesday.The AMU professors who have been named in the FIR are Chairman Department of Wildlife Sciences Prof Jamal Ahmed Khan, Readers Afifullah Khan and Satish Kumar and faculty members Prof H S A Yahya and Dr Orus Ilyas, they said.The FIR was registered on July 9 by master trainer at the Animal Welfare Board Naresh Kadyan, the police said.The accused have been charged with sections related to cruelty towards an animal and keeping it captive, they said, adding that wildlife activists are demanding that the professors be charged under the more stringent Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.The wildlife activists also alleged that though the black buck was rescued by the UP Wildlife Department after the complaint was lodged, no legal action was initiated against the offenders.The professors were not available for comment. Such incidences make us wonder about the followers if the leaders behave in such a callous and atrocious manner.
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