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UoH campus tense
The University of Hyderabad campus on Monday remained tense when police used force to take possession of Rohit\'s body, which the students had locked in a room and were insisting should be visited by Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao.
Hyderabad/ New Delhi: The University of Hyderabad campus on Monday remained tense when police used force to take possession of Rohit's body, which the students had locked in a room and were insisting should be visited by Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao.
Policemen in riot gear used batons to disperse the slogan-shouting students and arrested eight of them before shifting the body to Osmania Hospital for autopsy. A Joint Action Committee (JAC) of various student groups blamed growing influence of right-wing groups on the campus for the incident.
They decided to go on indefinite strike from Tuesday stalling administration work till the Vice-Chancellor resigns. They claimed that they have the support of university teaching and non teaching staff.Protests over Rohit’s suicide echoed in the national capital, where students tried to lay siege to the office of Union Human Resources Development Minister Smriti Irani.
Police used water cannons and arrested several students as they broke the barricades. The protestors, carrying pictures of B R Ambedkar and raising anti-government slogans, clashed with police.Irani, while expressing sympathy with the student's family, declined to comment on the incident. She merely said the ministry had no administrative control over the central universities.
The row between the students groups broke out in August last year when ASU took out a rally to condemn the ABVP's attack on the screening of a documentary on the Muzaffarnagar riots at Delhi University.
