Muzaffarnagar under tight security after Darul Uloom student dies of bullet injuries

Security was beefed up in the communally sensitive Muzaffarnagar after a student of Darul Uloom Deoband, who was shot at by unidentified gunmen, succumbed to his injuries at Delhi’s Safdarjung hospital, the police said.

Mohd Mubarik, one of the two students who were shot at by the motorbike-borne criminals near Barla village on May 23, succumbed to his injuries at Safdarjung hospital on Saturday night while another student Abu Azmi was undergoing treatment, SP crime Rakesh Kumar Jolly told reporters here.

Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband condemned the incident and demanded immediate arrest of the accused. Meanwhile, security was tightened in the district in  view of tension over the incident. Police also launched a hunt to nab the culprits.