CID begins probe into attack on TDP leaders at Osmania University

The Andhra Pradesh CID today began an inquiry into the attack on TDP politburo member Nagam Janardhan Reddy and other party leaders by students and pro-Telangana activists at the Osmania University (OU) campus here.
    
Taking a serious view of the attack, the state government had ordered a CID inquiry into the incident late last night.
    
"We have taken up the investigations into the incident. Some teams have visited the OU campus today. The probe has just started and more details can be known only in next couple of days," CID additional DGP A Sivanarayana told PTI.
    
Based on a complaint filed by Ram Goverdhan, security guard of Nagam Janardhan Reddy, the Osmania University police has registered a criminal case against the attackers.
    
The CID official declined to comment on a query, if some outsiders were also involved in the attack.
    
A local TV channel showed one person identified as Srikanth Raju, repeatedly hitting the TDP leader and later offering to apologise for his misbehaviour.
    
Nagam was manhandled and roughed up while another TDP leader and former Home minister Devender Goud was chased and pushed by agitators when they visited the varsity campus yesterday to express solidarity with them on the issue of Telangana statehood.