45 injured as violence breaks out at Osmania University

Hyderabad, Jan 20 (PTI) Violence broke out at the Osmania
University campus here Wednesday when police stopped students
from staging a march with the the body of a youth who
committed suicide by immolating himself apparently due to
delay in formation of a separate Telangana state.

Police said at least 30 students and 15 policemen,
including Kachiguda ACP K Ramchander, were injured as the
premises turned into a battlefield with students throwing
stones and torching police vehicles.
Police burst teargas shells and fired rubber bullets and
used water cannons to disperse them. Some mediapersons were
also hurt during the clashes.
The violence broke out over shifting the body of K
Venugopal Reddy, a 23-year-old final-year MCA student who set
himself ablaze Tuesday at the university, which has been a
focal point for the youth demanding Telangana.
The students planned to take out Venugopal's body in a
procession towards Gun Park near Andhra Pradesh state assembly
from the Arts College premises where the body was kept since
yesterday. Hundreds of students gathered at the Arts College
premises to pay their respects to Venugopal.
But police stopped them from taking out any procession
saying it may aggrevate the situation in view of the bandh
being already observed in the city in support of Telangana.
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