Row over girl in Hyderabad University men hostel

Hyderabad: A girl student was given a showcause notice for entering a boys hostel in University of Hyderabad. Over 10 other students were also issued notices by the university administration on Saturday for questioning the warden and security officials and raising slogans against alleged moral policing when they conducted a surprise check on Men's Hostel - J on Friday.

Mr Kuldeep Singh, a student who was served a showcause notice, said,  “It says that we were misbehaving and assaulted the warden. No one raised a finger. We just asked them what was wrong if a girl student who was part of the student community entered a hostel. They kept saying that it is against the hostel handbook.”

Many students who gathered at the J hostel said the Tagore International hostel for exchange students did not follow the same rules.

Students Union president Sreerag P., was also given a notice. He said the university had appeared to have taken the names of students from their Facebook pages. “Does this mean that the university is keeping a tabs on our social media accounts too,” he said.

The university released a statement stating, “A surprise check by wardens to weed out unauthorised people led to heckling of the officials including physical threa-ts. Police had to intervene before the wardens moved out of the hostel premises.”