Minutes after the Srikrishna Committee report was made public on Thursday morning,the volatile Osmania University campus erupted in violence with the students fighting pitched battles with the security forces throughout the day.In the violence that continued till late in the night,at least six persons were injured including students and security personnel. After the security forces lobbed over a 100 stun grenades and teargas shells,the students retaliated by pelting stones at the security forces at various points of conflict and the campus resembled a war zone.Among the injured were Task Force additional DCP M Srinivasulu who was admitted to Yashoda Hospital in Malakpet,Nallkunta SI K Ravi Kumar,and students Naveen,Sampath Kumar,Laxmiprasad and Ramesh.Unconfirmed reports said Ravikumar an LLB student undergoing treatment at Gandhi hospital was allegedly hit by a bullet.City police commissioner in a late night release claimed that 15 rounds of rubber bullets were fired at the OU campus. In the violence on Thursday that may be indicative of the shape of things to follow,both the security forces and the students displayed new battle tactics.After finding that the students were disarming the teargas shells that were lobbed at them by quickly immersing them in mud in the previous instances of violence,the police brought in the stun grenades this time that delivered a loud noise equivalent to high-pitched Diwali crackers.
The students,on the other hand,masked themselves with handkerchiefs while attacking buses and other vehicles so that they are not identified. The violence on Thursday began just as APSRTC sent a relief vehicle (AP10Z-1660 ) to remove the Musheerabad-bound bus that was burnt by students late on Wednesday night.When the relief vehicle towing the bus reached OU Arts College at 11.45 am,the students who had gathered there in strength,stopped the vehicle and set it ablaze.At the same time, another group of students tried to break out of the campus on the Vidyanagar side and were lathicharged and chased back by the cops. The students later took out a rally from OU Arts College to universitys NCC Gate and tried to spill out onto the main road around 1.10 pm.The police,however,stopped them by firing the stun grenades.In the firing,two students sustained serious injuries.While Naveen,a PG student of the university was hit on the head by a shell,Laxmiprasad,an MA Economics student,was injured on the knee.
The stand-off at the Eflu gate near B Hostel continued till 1.50 pm at which point the police success-fully disbursed the protesting students.Meanwhile,a 108 ambulance that was trying to remove injured students from the campus was stopped at the main gate of the university by the police and was not allowed to leave for over 15 minutes. The next round of violence commenced at 2.40 pm when a group of students took out a rally to OU police station and started pelting stones at the paramilitary forces standing guard before the English and Foreign Languages University (Eflu) building.At around 4.40 pm,a school student who had come to participate in the agitation,got injured by a stun grenade used by the forces.The violence continued till around 7 pm.
================================== girl students leave the Osmania University campus as a second bus is burnt by a violent mob following the release of the Srikrishna Committee report on Telangana statehood,in the city on Thursday
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The students,on the other hand,masked themselves with handkerchiefs while attacking buses and other vehicles so that they are not identified. The violence on Thursday began just as APSRTC sent a relief vehicle (AP10Z-1660 ) to remove the Musheerabad-bound bus that was burnt by students late on Wednesday night.When the relief vehicle towing the bus reached OU Arts College at 11.45 am,the students who had gathered there in strength,stopped the vehicle and set it ablaze.At the same time, another group of students tried to break out of the campus on the Vidyanagar side and were lathicharged and chased back by the cops. The students later took out a rally from OU Arts College to universitys NCC Gate and tried to spill out onto the main road around 1.10 pm.The police,however,stopped them by firing the stun grenades.In the firing,two students sustained serious injuries.While Naveen,a PG student of the university was hit on the head by a shell,Laxmiprasad,an MA Economics student,was injured on the knee.
The stand-off at the Eflu gate near B Hostel continued till 1.50 pm at which point the police success-fully disbursed the protesting students.Meanwhile,a 108 ambulance that was trying to remove injured students from the campus was stopped at the main gate of the university by the police and was not allowed to leave for over 15 minutes. The next round of violence commenced at 2.40 pm when a group of students took out a rally to OU police station and started pelting stones at the paramilitary forces standing guard before the English and Foreign Languages University (Eflu) building.At around 4.40 pm,a school student who had come to participate in the agitation,got injured by a stun grenade used by the forces.The violence continued till around 7 pm.
================================== girl students leave the Osmania University campus as a second bus is burnt by a violent mob following the release of the Srikrishna Committee report on Telangana statehood,in the city on Thursday
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