LUCKNOW, Jan. 23 -- The King George's Medical University (KGMU) administration has issued a final notice against all shrines (mazars) on its campus, directing their caretakers to remove the "unauthorised" structures within 15 days or face demolition and legal action.

The notice, issued on Thursday by prof KK Singh, nodal officer for land acquisition and KGMU spokesperson, states that the shrines were illegally constructed on land belonging to the departments of obstetrics and gynaecology, respiratory medicine and orthopaedics, as well as on the premises of the orthopaedic superspeciality building, the new boys' hostel (TG hostel), near Shatabdi Phase-2 and the Trauma Centre, and behind microbiology department-2, without any valid permiss...