Tension as cops clash with students, stop Telangana march
Monday September 19, 2011 02:34:22 PM,
IANS
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Hyderabad: Students of
Hyderabad's Osmania University and Nizam College clashed with
police Monday after they were stopped from taking out a march to
demand a separate Telangana state.
Police fired teargas shells to disperse students who were pelting
stones after the rally was stopped at NCC Gate. As students
remained on the sprawling campus while police forces closing the
exit routes, the situation continued to be tense, eyewitnesses
said.
Activists of the students' wing of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS)
wanted to march to the secretariat, about 15 km from the campus,
to show solidarity with government employees, who have been on
indefinite strike for the last one week demanding formation of a
separate state.
Teachers, workers of state-owned Singareni Collieries are also on
strike, lawyers are boycotting the courts while employees of the
Road Transport Corporation (RTC) joined the protest, paralysing
transport services.
Violence also broke out at Nizam College in Basheerbagh in the
heart of Hyderabad city after police stopped the students trying
to take out a rally.
A group of students resorted to stone pelting on police and
attacked cars either parkes near the college or passing through
the area. Police used batons against students and chased them
inside the college.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Akun Sabarwal told the media that 30
students had been arrested. Six policemen were injured in the
stone pelting while five cars were damaged.
Police have already imposed prohibitory orders banning meetings,
rallies and processions in the city.
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