Rioting erupts in Nizam College, Osmania Varsity

The New Indian Express

Sep 20, 2011

HYDERABAD: For a change, students of Nizam College upstaged Osmania University in making a point in the ongoing Telangana agitation by engaging hundreds of policemen in a veritable intifada just a stone’s throw from the police commissioner’s office on Monday.

The trigger was a bid by the police to stop boarders of the Nizam College hostel from marching on their campus, just a hundred yards away, to express solidarity with their teachers who are on strike as part of the Telangana Sakala Janula Samme. With police already present in strength around the Police Commissioner’s Office opposite the college, a group of marchers set out from the hostel at 11.30 am. They were stopped by policemen who had commandeered a private vehicle. Thus invited to a riot, the students attacked the vehicle with stones, injuring some of the cops. The students then set upon other private vehicles on the road, and a free-for-all ensued.

With reinforcements called in to block the march, students rained stones on policemen from the road opposite their hostel and also from within. Deputy commissioner of police (central zone) Akun Sabharwal entered the hostel with a battery of personnel and allegedly beat up the students inside.“It was merciless,” said one Nizam’s boarder. “Some of the students were in the bathrooms, they were dragged out and thrashed.’’ Sabharwal said his posse entered the hostel only to identify the stone-pelters. Nearly 30 students were arrested, he said. Read more..

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Osmania University (Telugu: ఉస్మానియా విశ్వవిద్యాలయము, Urdu: جامعہ عثمانیہ ; also known as OU for short) is a public university situated in the city of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is named after the Last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, who is the founder of this university.^[1] It is one of the oldest modern universities in India. It was the first Indian University to have Urdu (اردو) language as medium of instruction. It is one of the largest university systems in the subcontinent with over 300,000 students on its various campuses and affiliated colleges. It is particularly well known for its Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Engineering and Technology departments. Its faculty of management is considered as one of the best management institutions under the university system. Osmania Medical College was once part of the same university system. It is now transferred under the supervision of NTR University of Health Sciences.

~ par Alain Bertho sur 20 septembre 2011.

Publié dans दंगा, émeutes, riots