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Assam-based AUSU, PGSU condemn assault on NEHU Prof in Meghalaya

Shillong, Apr 27 (UNI) The Assam University Students’ Union (AUSU) and the Post Graduate Students’ Union (PGSU) of Gauhati University have strongly condemned the recent assault on Dr. Alok Kumar Singh, an Assistant Professor at North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) here in Meghalaya.
Both the Students’ Unions have termed the physical assault on Singh, who teaches Hindi in the prestigious NEHU, as a “grave attack on academic freedom and institutional integrity.”
In an FIR, Singh had accused the President of NEHU Students’ Union (NEHUSU) and five others accomplices for brutally assaulting him inside his office at 4.45 pm on April 24.
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