Overview
- Rao Danish Ali, a 45-year-old computer science teacher at AMU’s ABK Union/High School, was shot near the Maulana Azad Library area around 9 pm during an evening walk with colleagues.
- Witness accounts say the scooter-borne assailants threatened the group, with one saying, “You don’t know me yet, now you will,” before firing at close range.
- Ali sustained head wounds and was rushed to Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
- An FIR has been lodged at Civil Lines police station against unidentified attackers, and multiple police teams are scanning campus and nearby CCTV, which officials say is hard to read due to darkness and fog.
- AMU has tightened security and announced a review of campus safeguards, as investigators examine all angles and have not identified a motive.