Tension at OU campus. Group-I exam a partial success.

AbdulMuqtadir Syed / Headlines / 4 Comments

Tension prevailed at the Osmania University campus here on Sunday after scores of pro-Telangana activists entered into examination centres where Group-I services preliminary tests were being conducted.

The authorities have declared the exam conducted at the centre as canceled.

Amid bandh call given by the Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee (OUJAC), students and pro-Telangana activists broke the barricades put up at the OU campus and scaled the compound wall of the Institute of Advance Studies — one of the exam centres.

Shouting slogans of ‘Jai Telangana’, the activists entered into the exam centre but, the police intervened and took them into custody.

Angered over the arrests, students indulged in heavy stone pelting on police personnel inside the campus and near the Tarnaka road adjacent to the OU campus. They also pelted stones at buses.

Police later lathicharged them and also fired few tear gas shells to disperse them.

East Zone DCP Mahesh Chandra Laddha told reporters that around 60 protesters were taken into preventive custody. He, however, clarified that neither answer sheets nor question papers were taken away from the candidates as reported in some media.

“We had to use force to disperse violent protesters,” the DCP added.

The OUJAC and Telangana JAC had demanded the state government to postpone the Group-I exams demanding 42 per cent reservation of jobs for the people from the region.

In spite of all the police force that was deployed at the exam centers, the Group-I exam completed with partial Success. In Telangana, the attendance was as low as 45%.

Image Source : thehindu.com

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