Hyderabad, September 02: The city police on Wednesday arrested four students allegedly belonged to a group of Osmania University Students’ Joint Action Committee (OUSJAC) for attacking ‘Non-local’ lecturers who had come to evaluate B Ed answer scripts on the Osmania university campus on August 28.
The police identified the ‘vigilantes’ as Saidulu, Jagan, Srinivas and Veerababu. The attackers alleged that non-local lecturers were evaluating with bias and it was harming interests of Telangana students.
The manhandling of the non-Telangana evaluators had led to an outcry across the state and triggered protests. Governor ESL Narasimhan had expressed his anguish at the deterioration of the situation and ordered Vice-Chancellor Tirupati Rao to submit a report on the entire incident.
Meanwhile, Osmania University Students’ Joint Action Committee demanded the police to release all the arrested immediately and lift police cases against them.
The JAC threatened to intensify its agitation, if the police failed to release them immediately.
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