Times of India Apologises for 2007 Article on Aligarh Muslim University
A former student had filed a defamation case on the matter.
Aligarh Muslim University. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: Prominent English daily
Times of India (TOI) tendered an apology for publishing a ‘defamatory’ article on Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in a civil court of Delhi on January 14 â 14 years after the article was published. The case was filed by a former law student of the university, Farrukh Khan, who is now a practicing advocate. Khan was also the general secretary of the students’ union in 2005.
The 2007 news story titled ‘AMU: Where the Degrees are Sold like Toffees’ was written by Akhilesh Kumar Singh. Khan graduated from the university the same year and filed a defamation suit against the publisher, the editor and the reporter of the newspaper. The case was settled on January 14 when the newspaper submitted an apology.