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Arrest of students at DGP office triggers protest

Staff Reporter

Agitating Osmania University students demand postponement of SI recruitment; call for bandh today

Condition of 3 of the 7 students who are on fast-unto-death, deteriorates
40 students attempt to barge into the DGP office at Saifabad

HYDERABAD: Pro-Telangana students went berserk burning an APSRTC bus and damaging another on Osmania University campus on Monday, hours after police arrested some of them trying to barge into DGP office demanding postponement police Sub-Inspector recruitment test in Hyderabad.

As reports spread that condition of three of the seven students, who were on fast unto death for past four days in the cellar of Arts College, deteriorated, large number of students squatted on OU police station ‘Y' junction.

Students were already simmering with anger as their friends suffered minor bruises when the police resorted to lathicharge at the DGP office earlier in the morning. Traffic came to a grinding halt on the campus road and the nearby Tarnaka junction.

Students also pelted stones on buses plying through the campus breaking the windscreens. “Conducting SI recruitment test treating Hyderabad as free zone means snatching away our jobs. We'll stop this at any cost,” they shouted. Meanwhile, activists of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) took out a procession from Arts College to NCC gate and staged a demonstration there. Additional police forces were rushed to the area as tension was building up. While one batch of students went to meet the Home Minister at Secretariat, other students went in procession to Tarnaka and squatted on the road holding up traffic for a further 30 minutes.

Earlier, 40 students led by Kailash Neta, Pidamarthi Ravi and Rajaram Yadav, attempted to barge into the DGP office at Saifabad. Policemen had to use force to stop. They were taken into preventive custody but were let off later.

The OU Students Joint Action Committee has called for Hyderabad bandh on Tuesday even as the State government announced postponement of SI recruitment test in Hyderabad, for which it had been agitating for past few days.

0“There is no change in our bandh call. Our demand is the test be postponed till the Presidential order treating Hyderabad as free zone is amended as per a resolution passed by our State Assembly,” the OUSJAC leader, Kailash Neta, said.

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