Hyderabad: A Hyderabad Court on Monday granted bail to 25 students and two faculty members of HCU, who were arrested for staging a violent protest against varsity Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao Podile.
Following the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, Rao had gone on leave and resumed office on March 23.
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The students had been booked on 11 charges - pertaining to rioting, voluntarily causing hurt, voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty, among others.
Furious over Rao's resumption of duty, students broke into his office earlier this month, vandalised and ransacked the premises after they staged a protest demanding his resignation. The accused students and two faculty members were arrested and taken into judicial custody.
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On March 23, the HCU authorities announced suspension of classes for four days from March 23 to 26 in view of the situation prevailing on the campus.
The protesting students had demanded that the VC be arrested immediately as he was one of the accused in the case of Vemula's alleged suicide on January 17.
The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice (JAC) had demanded dropping of all charges against students, faculty members at HCU and elsewhere in the country and immediate removal and arrest of Appa Rao.
