» University Of Hyderabad Shut For A Week, Kanhaiya Disallowed
HCU Shut For A Week, Kanhaiya Not Allowed To Enter
The messes, and electricity and Internet access on campus, have also been shut down temporarily, and a heavy police force has been deployed on the campus.
The HCU administration has declared the university closed for a week and banned all meetings on the campus.
The messes, and electricity and Internet access on campus, have also been shut down temporarily.
A heavy police force has been deployed on the campus. All gates are being guarded heavily, and no outsiders, including media representatives, are being allowed inside.
The police had taken 25 students and two faculty members into custody yesterday for the vandalism on campus, and today a judge remanded them to 14 days' judicial custody.
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who landed in Hyderabad this morning for meeting deceased HCU student Rohith Vemula's mother and brother on the campus, was also refused entry, and addressed students outside the gates.
Speaking to mediapersons upon his arrival, at the Shamshabad Airport this morning, Kumar said that he was struggling for social justice in all the universities in the country.
CPI leaders Dr K Narayana and Chada Venkata Reddy, and student leaders later welcomed Kumar at their Party office Maqdoom Bhavan.
Meanwhile, it is reported that Vemula's mother will go on a fast on the HCU campus in protest against HCU Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao Podile returning to office on Tuesday.