HYDERABAD: Alleged ragging of a first year degree student Murtuza triggered a dispute between two student groups leading to mild tension on Nizam college campus here on Tuesday.

The Abids police took 10 students of the two groups into custody after booking a petty case for creating nuisance on the campus. But they are yet to initiate action in the alleged ragging case since the victim Murtuza was not available to ascertain facts.The conflict took a political colour with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi leaders, including Lok Sabha members A. Narendra and Vinod Kumar, accusing the police of falsely implicating their student wing activists in the case.

Central Zone DCP Madhusudhan Reddy told The Hindu that Murtuza, accompanied by his parents, came to the college in the morning. He complained to the authorities that seniors of the college ragged him. When they were leaving the college, a group of senior students representing different student associations approached Murtuza's parents. The seniors persuaded them to drop the complaint assuring that such incidents would not recur in the college.

Serious turn

"We're not yet sure what transpired later but Murtuza and his parents went away," the DCP said. Neither college authorities nor Murtuza's parents lodged any specific complaint with Abids police . It is learnt that, however, some TRS student wing activists of the college argued that Murtuza should approach the police.

Things took a serious turn in the evening when a group of the TRS student wing workers and another group with representatives of different associations entered into an argument. Later the college authorities called up the Abids police.

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