India

Osmania tense after clashes between rival student groups

Omer Farooq

Regularisation of contract employees by the TRS Government has left the students community in Osmania University campus in Hyderabad vertically divided and sparked off a violent clash between the rival groups of students.

The trouble which started on Wednesday continued on Thursday and additional police force was deployed on the campus following violent incidents including attacks on students and arson in some of the hostel room. Students of NRS Hostel lodged a complaint with the police that members of Akhila Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) had attacked their rooms and damaged the property last night.

The trouble started on Wednesday when a group of students took out a rally against the Government decision to regularise the contract employees. Participants attacked a student who refused to take part in the rally.