AGRA, May 4 -- The Aligarh Muslim University Teachers Association (AMUTA) is set to take up the issue of the municipal corporation taking possession of a four-hectare land in the next executive committee meeting to be called by the newly elected office-bearers.

Discontent within AMU is on the rise over the land row after the Aligarh Municipal Corporation re-established possession of a four-hectare land which was being used by AMU for horse riding for 80 years.

In a meeting on April 2 evening, AMUTA had a consultative meeting and condemned the way the municipal corporation took possession of land "lawfully owned by AMU". The meeting also demanded that accountability on the part of faculty responsible for the action be fixed.

"We condemn...