Internet services has been suspended in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh in the wake of unrest in AMU after the Jinnah portrait row.

“There will be no internet services from 2 pm today to 12 midnight tomorrow (on Saturday),” district magistrate Chandra Bhushan Singh reportedly said.

This has been done to prevent rumour mongering, a PTI report quoted him as saying.

It had come to the administrations notice that some anti-social elements could vitiate communal harmony by spreading rumours through videos, using internet services, his order reportedly said.

Tension prevailed in Aligarh and students continued with their sit-in at the university’s Baab-e-Syed gate, where they had clashed with the police on Wednesday, the report highlighted.

The students offered Friday prayers at the scene of the dharna in which a large number of teachers and other members of the AMU fraternity participated, it added.

Wednesday’s clash took place when the students were demanding action against right-wing protesters who entered the campus and wated the Pakistan founder?s portrait removed from the student union office, where it has been hanging for decades.

The row started after local BJP MP Satish Gautam wrote to AMU raising objections to the portrait, reported PTI.

The University reportedly said portraits of all life members of the student union hang there. Jinnah, a founder member of the University Court, had also been given this honour before Partition.

AMU vice chancellor Tariq Mansoor on Friday visited the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College Hospital where three of the students injured in the police lathi-charge are being treated. The VC later visited the protesting students and assured them of his “solidarity”, the report said.