With at least three dozen serving and retired AMU employees having died in the past few weeks due to Covid, old graves are now being dug up to bury the dead.
Prof Shakeel Samdani, 16 other AMU faculties succumb to Coronavirus in 18 days
Prof. Samdani served as a professor at the University for 12 years before being appointed as the Dean of Law Department
Monday May 10, 2021 12:03 PM, ummid.com with inputs from Agencies
Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh): As many as 17 working professors of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have died because of the Coronavirus Disease in the last 18 days. The latest of them is Professor Shakeel Samdani - Dean, Faculty of Law at Aligarh Muslim University.
According to the AMU, Prof Samadani (59) was under the treatment at the university’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, but succumbed to the deadly virus on Friday.
34 Aligarh Muslim University Professors Succumb To Covid-19 In Last 18 Days
After 34 deaths among teachers and retired colleagues due to Covid, the AMU vice-chancellor wrote to the ICMR, urging it to study if a particular coronavirus variant is circulating around the campus.
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As many as 34 working professors of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) have succumbed to Covid and Covid-like symptoms in the last 18 days. Professor Shakeel Samdani, dean of the law faculty of AMU who was undergoing treatment at Aligarh’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College died on Saturday.
34 deaths in 18 days: Worry as COVID kills many in AMU faculty, V-C writes to ICMR
The latest to fall to the virus was the dean of the AMU’s law faculty, Prof Shakeel Samdani, who died at Aligarh’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College on Friday.
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NEW DELHI: The deaths of at least 16 serving and 18 retired teachers, besides other staff of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), due to Covid-19 in the past 18 days have triggered an alarm, with the Vice-Chancellor on Sunday urging the ICMR to study the infection variant on the campus.
Prof. Shakeel Samdani–why were you in such a hurry?
Syed Hashim Ali was Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in the mid-1980s. One evening he visited Ross Masood (RM) Hall, a hall of residence named after AMU founder Sir Syed’s only grandson Sir Ross Masood.
By Mohammed Wajihuddin| Published: 10th May 2021 9:20 pm IST
Mohammed Wajihuddin
The meeting was at the common room which we used mostly to watch the weekly Chitrahar on the Television set and occasionally to host important guests. But that evening the VC wanted to address the hostel residents to quell a rumour about a change in admission policy. A few agitated students tried to heckle the VC. Before the bedlam could turn into a serious law and order problem, a tall, healthy, young man, in jeans and black T-shirt, his thick hair bouncing, stood up and began pacifying the agitated students. The cacophony turned into silence and the VC removed all the doubts, explaining that there was no change in the admi