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UoH clash: ABVP leader, others booked for assault
Days after two groups of students clashed on the campus of University of Hyderabad here following a meeting on ‘Kashmir situation,’ ABVP leader N Susheel Kumar and others have been booked for allegedly assaulting an MPhil student.
Hyderabad: Days after two groups of students clashed on the campus of University of Hyderabad here following a meeting on ‘Kashmir situation,’ ABVP leader N Susheel Kumar and others have been booked for allegedly assaulting an MPhil student.
The M Phil student, Amol Singh, claimed that the attackers mistook him for a Kashmiri. Police also booked Singh after Kumar, accused of abetting the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula on the campus in January, alleged in his cross-complaint that Singh had attacked them.
Gachibowli police have booked Kumar and 30 others under sections 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means), 341 (wrongful restraint) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC after Singh alleged that some ABVP students "brutally" attacked him on Saturday evening, a senior police officer told PTI today.
Similarly, based on a complaint lodged by Kumar, a counter case has been registered against Singh with Miyapur Police under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and other relevant sections of IPC, he said, adding that both the cases are under investigation.
On July 16 evening, a scuffle had broken out between two groups of students after a meeting was conducted to condemn the police action against protesters in Jammu and Kashmir at the shopping complex on the varsity campus.
In his complaint, Singh alleged that Kumar and others rained punches and kicks on him on the campus after mistaking him for a Kashmiri student while he was returning after attending the meeting. Singh had claimed that he was attacked again near a hospital.
Meanwhile, in a related development, the Joint Action Committee for Social Justice (UoH), which is spearheading the protests over Vemula's death, on Monday, condemned the assault on Singh. "In this incident, the nexus of ABVP with (Vice Chancellor) Appa Rao Podile-led UoH administration is clearly visible.
N Susheel Kumar and Podile Appa Rao are amongst the prime accused in the SC&ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and abetment to suicide of Rohith Vemula and harassment of four other Dalit research scholars," the JAC stated in a release.
