Mubashir Bukhari
Srinagar (NVI): Jammu and Kashmir administration today traced three out of four Ph.D scholars who had escaped during quarantine from Aligarh Muslim University.
On March 18, four Ph.D. scholars from Kashmir had escaped from the quarantine ward in Aligarh. These scholars had returned to India from the UAE and their university had kept them in quarantine.
A letter issued by the medical authorities at the AMU had said three scholars fled the isolation wards without informing the authorities
While three of them have been traced, the fourth Kashmiri scholar is still untraced.
Two scholars were traced in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, while one was traced in Anantnag district. They have been shifted to Health Centres for examination.
Deputy Commissioner Srinagar, Shahid Choudhary said in a tweet said, “Unfortunate. Anyone hiding travel history/avoiding screening/facilitating exits could be guilty of culpable homicide. Threat is at doorsteps. Let’s behave.”
Jammu and Kashmir Students Association spokesperson Nasir Khuehami claimed these scholars were denied proper quarantine facility at AMU and compelled to seek refuge in isolation at home. “AMU administration, in order to save its skin, released the notice shortly after the said scholars returned home,” he said in a tweet.
He further said, “The interesting point is that one of the AMU research scholars from Department of Botany with a recent travel history to Spain, attended his Lab as usual without being quarantined or self-isolating himself.”
