HYDERABAD: A demonstration by students for better facilities in the hostels on Osmania University campus on Friday turned into demand for suspension of the local Inspector when the latter resorted to lathicharge to disperse them.

While student associations charged that O.U. Inspector P. Narsimhulu "used excessive force", the police maintained that the students prevented them from discharging their duties. It started with some students staging a sit-in at the Science College principal's office in protest against power breakdown on Thursday night at `B' hostel.

Accusing the principal of not giving audience to their woes, the students blocked the roads near their hostel, throwing traffic out of gear. The students continued their demonstration from noon to 3 p.m.

The agitators allegedly assaulted a motorcyclist Revanth of Moula Ali, as he tried to go past them.

With traffic coming to a halt, policemen tried to remove the students but resorted to lathicharge as the latter resisted. As a student, Kalyan, fell unconscious allegedly after a policeman hit him, the students squatted on the road near the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, demanding suspension of the Inspector.

As the situation was going out of hand, East Zone DCP B. Balakrishna arrived at the scene and pacified them.

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