HCU violence: Cops tried to please Centre, says Sushil Kumar Shinde
Shinde visited the Cherlapalli jail to meet the students and later held a meeting with Dalit Students Organisations.
Hyderabad: Accusing the TS police of excesses and beating up the arrested UoH students while shifting them to various police stations, former Union minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday said that the cops must have acted in such a way to please their Central government bosses who are out to take revenge on the student community.
Mr Shinde visited the Cherlapalli jail to meet the students and later held a meeting with Dalit Students Organisations along with TPCC chief N. Uttam Kumar Reddy and working president Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.
He later told the media that the AICC will take up the issue with the President.
“I never heard such an incident where police thrashed students who were remanded to judicial custody. This is atrocious. Maybe the cops wanted to please their Central government bosses,” Mr Shinde said.
He said when he met them in jail, he saw bruises on the bodies of the students on account of the thrashing. Squarely blaming UoH V-C P. Appa Rao for all the turmoil in the university in the last few months, including the suicide of Rohith Vemula, Mr Shinde said that he either quit the post or the Centre must sack him.