Violence broke out at the Osmania University campus in Hyderabad on Wednesday when the police stopped students from staging a march with the body of a youth who committed suicide by immolating himself apparently due to delay in formation of a separate Telangana state.
The police said at least 30 students and 15 policemen, including Kachiguda Assistant Commissioner of Police K Ramchander, were injured as the premises turned into a battlefield with students throwing stones and torching police vehicles.
The police burst teargas shells and fired rubber bullets and used water cannons to disperse them. Some mediapersons were also hurt during the clashes.
The violence broke out over shifting the body of K Venugopal Reddy, a 23-year-old final-year MCA student who set himself ablaze on Tuesday at the university, which has been a focal point for the youth demanding Telangana.
The students planned to take out Venugopal's body in a procession towards Gun Park near Andhra Pradesh state assembly from the arts college premises where the body was kept since Tuesday.
Hundreds of students gathered at the arts college premises to pay their respects to Venugopal.
But the police stopped them from taking out any procession saying it may aggravate the situation in view of the bandh being already observed in the city in support of Telangana.Now, girl commits suicide over Telangana
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