Agra: Two men were caught trying to mix rat poison in a water cooler in a madrassa in Agra. The madrassa is said to be run by former Vice-President Hamid Ansari’s wife, Salma Ansari.
A report carried by a leading English daily said Chacha Nehru madrassa is run by Aligarh’s Al Noor Charitable Society which is in turn run by Salma Ansari.
A case has been registered under Section 328 (causing hurt by means of poison) and Section 506 (criminal intimidation) by the police against two unidentified persons. The police also said
that the water cooler has been sealed and the samples have been sent to the Forensic Lab for testing.
The madrassa houses around 4,000 children. Salma Ansari, while talking to the media house, said that she was “shocked” hearing the news. The madrassa authorities have now decided to
install CCTV cameras in the premises.
The warden of the madrassa, Junaid Siddiqui, said that when Afzal, one of the students who lives in hostel went to drink water from the water cooler he saw a man mixing some tablets in it.
hen he questioned them, another man sitting at the boundary wall of the madrassa – carrying a country made pistol – threatened Afzal and asked him to stay quite.
