The tension following the violence in the Osmania University campus was the creation of the Andhra Pradesh police, said Telangana Joint Action Committee leaders.
The students had been made scapegoats with the police in mufti indulging in pelting stones at the police forces that were stationed in the campus, the JAC leaders alleged before the media persons at the State Secretariat on Friday.
The JAC leaders, Convenor Kodandaram and Telangana Gazetted Officers' Association President V Srinivas Gowd, further charged the police of spreading rumours that the students were behind all that happened in the campus.
Condemning the police, the 2 leaders were of the opinion that the government let loose terror in the campus and threw the entire blame on the innocent students.
It was also made clear that a few journalists were a witness to the stone-pelting.
As per the court ruling, the police was not supposed to enter the university campus without the permission of the Vice-Chancellor. Contrary to this, the police not only gained entry into the campus, but also resorted to firing at a time when the students were organising peaceful demonstration against the
Srikrishna Committee Report, the JAC leaders charged.
The embargo that the government imposed on the media was also criticised by the JAC leaders.
The incident had assumed the proportion of emergency imposed in 1975, they said, adding that the Right To Information was curbed by the brutal force of the police.
"The people have the right to know in a democracy," Prof. Kodandaram said, and appealed to the students not to go by the SMS messages allegedly spread by the police.
He demanded that the police forces be withdrawn immediately from the campus, failing which the leaders threatened to intensify their stir peacefully.
The police went to the extent of spreading rumours that a student who had received bullet injuries died, the JAC Convenor said.
The leaders clarified that the student Ravi Kumar who had sustained bullet injuries was operated upon last night and was recovering after the 'pellet' was removed.
They also lashed out that the police intervention was uncalled for and uninvited, and what the police was trying to portray was untrue.
Stating that the policemen were trying to divert the attention of the peaceful struggle that had been going on, the JAC leaders asked whether it was justifiable on their part to create confusion and corner the students.
Courtesy: INN