None of the hostels were closed and not a single student was evicted from hostel, he said. “While difference of opinion and dissent is not discouraged, the university certainly does not take kindly to vandalism and other acts of indiscipline”, Rao said.
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Though the university is located in the state capital, the management and administration was the responsibility of the Centre and the State Government can not intervene, he said adding that the law and order, however, was a state subject and any kind of excesses by the police and the university officials will not be tolerated.
The panel recommended that criminal investigation should be immediately conducted and action should be taken against the police who have wilfully neglected their duty under section 4 of the SC/ST amendment act, 2016.
Hyderabad University has been on the boil ever since Appa Rao returned from his forced long leave following the death of the Dalit Research scholar Rohit Vemula.
The issue rocked the house as it was adjourned thrice before the government accepted the opposition demand for a debate. The home minister made the announcement while giving a statement on the discussion on alleged police excesses on the UoH and OU campuses.
He assured the house that the TRS government will take a lead in ensuring that such unfortunate incidents do not recur.
In an apparent reference to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, BJP’s NVSS Prabhakar alleged that leaders from Delhi came here and tried to create a tense atmosphere. There was tension when the police lathi charged the agitating students and the latter pelted stones at the cops resulting in four cops sustaining minor injuries.
MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday demanded withdrawal of cases against students and professors of Hyderabad Central University.
Police have detained around 25 students and two faculty members after a protest erupted in the varsity against the return of Vice Chancellor Appa Rao on Tuesday.
“However, the students tried to re-enter the building”. It said that the university officials had “more to hide than reveal” in the violence of March 22.
The team met the students, faculty members, the police, the Home Minister and local civil society organizations before giving its preliminary findings.
There were sharp exchanges between Congress, TRS, MIM and BJP MLAs.
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader K. Laxman said action should be taken against those who were indulging in anti-national activities.
