Over 10 security personnel and few mediapersons were injured today in fresh clash between students and security men in Osmania University.
Over 10 security personnel and few mediapersons were injured today in fresh clash between students and security men in Osmania University here, the nerve-centre of separate Telangana agitation.
Students in large numbers gathered in the campus today and hurled stones at the security personnel, including state police and personnel of Central Para-Military Force, DCP (East Zone) Mahesh Chandra Ladda said.
The stone pelting resulted in injuries to about 12 security personnel, he said.
The policemen observed utmost restraint and tried to disperse the students by using tear gas shells, he said.
No student suffered injuries in the incident, Ladda said.
Asked about reports that police cane-charged the students and that some mediapersons also sustained injuries, he replied in the negative.
The mediapersons might have suffered injuries as they were caught in between the security personnel and students, he said.
Couple of mediapersons covering the incidents in the university campus, however, showed the marks of cane-charge on their bodies.
Some electronic media journalists said they were not allowed inside the campus initially.
The fresh clash came a day after over 22 people, including five media men and 11 security personnel with an officer among them, were injured last night when students agitating over creation of a separate Telangana hurled stones at them on the Osmania University campus prompting them to use force to quell the mob.
Security personnel launched a lathicharge, fired rubber bullets and tear gas shells when students, defying prohibitory orders, pelted stones at them and tried to take out a procession in support of JAC legislators who resigned yesterday over the terms of reference of the Srikrishna Committee.
The state government last night ordered an inquiry into the baton-charge on students at the University.
Home minister P Sabita Reddy visited the media persons who were undergoing treatment at the Gandhi government hospital in the city.
"The incident in Osmania University campus yesterday was most unfortunate. The Chief Minister has already ordered that an inquiry should be held and the guilty be punished. The inquiry would find out the reasons for yesterday's incident and if any excesses are found, the guilty will be punished," she said.
Meanwhile, a team of the Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission visited the campus today to ascertain if any violation of human rights took place in the campus.
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