Aligadh, April 10: A LOCAL court in Aligarh on Friday asked the police to register cases against six persons involved in an illegal sting operation against gay Aligarh Muslim University ( AMU) professor Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras.
Four of the six persons are AMU officials — Jubair Khan ( proctor), Farid Ahmad Khan ( deputy proctor), Rahat Abrar ( PRO) and NAK Durrani ( media adviser). The other two, Sayed Adil Murtaza and Ashu Mishra, are local television news channel reporters.
Siras, 64, was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Wednesday.
The AMU officials had allegedly hired the reporters and camerapersons to secretly film Siras in a compromising position with a youth on February 6.
They submitted the video clip to the university administration which suspended him on February 11.
On April 1, the Allahabad High Court revoked Siras’s suspension and asked the AMU to reinstate him.
The deceased professor’s lawyer Sateyndra Singh Chauhan said chief judicial magistrate Shyam Lal on Friday asked the police to register FIRs against the six men for breach of privacy.
—Agencies