Aligarh: An FIR has finally been registered against four AMU staffers and three media persons for forcefully landing up at Prof Sira's house and shooting him having sex with a rickshaw puller. The professor's body was discovered in his house on Wednesday evening.
They have been booked under various sections of the IPC for criminal intimidation, trespass and use of criminal force. The FIR has named AMU Proctor Dr Zubair Khan, Deputy Proctor Fareed Ahmed Khan, PRO Dr Rahat Abrar and Media Advisor Dr N A K Durrani. Three media persons have also been named - TV 100 Channel reporter, Syed Adil Murtaza, Voice of Nation reporter, Ashu Nesam and one unidentified reporter.
After the post-mortem on Thursday failed to ascertain the cause of death, the police now claim they are unable to locate his mobile phone. "We are still searching his apartment, haven't been able to locate it," said a police officer investigating the case.
The body of professor Siras had been found in a decomposed state in his flat in Durga Badi in Aligarh on Wednesday evening. The door to his house had been locked from inside and the police had found no signs of a break in. Meanwhile Siras' brother, in Aligarh to claim his brother's body, refused to accept suicide as the cause of death.
"My brother's mobile phone is missing. The police should look for it. He could not have committed suicide. He was happy. I had met him three days ago," said Siras's brother. The faculty association too openly came out in support of Siras, saying that he was being harassed.
As civil rights activists and lawyers representing Siras, began to gather in Aligarh, the police found itself on the backfoot. They had even refused to register Siras's complaint against the university after he had come to them for help. The gay professor was socially abandoned long before his death.
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