MANUU Chancellor seeks police probe over allegation of drugs on campus

Hyderabad: Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) Chancellor Firoz Bakht Ahmed has sought a probe into allegations of a sex racket, prostitution and drugs on the campus but varsity authorities have dismissed the allegations, saying the complaint was found to be fake.
Firoz Bakht Ahmed The chancellor wrote a letter to Cyberabad Police Commissioner V.C. Sajjanar earlier this week, requesting him to conduct an inquiry and take necessary action.
The chancellor told IANS that he wrote to the police commissioner after the National Commission for Women (NCW) sent him a letter about the complaint it received about illegal activities such as prostitution, running of a sex racket and drugs at the health centre on the campus.
A resident of Telangana had sent the complaint to Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) which had forwarded the same to NCW.
“I don’t know the person who sent this (complaint) but since PMO forwarded it to NCW and NCW wrote to me, I took it seriously,” he said.
Alleging that such activities were going on in the university for a long time and complaints were also lodged in the past, he said the university authorities through their contacts in the Union Ministry of Education and University Grants Commission (UGC) ensured that no action was taken.