Police on Tuesday evening forcibly removed students protesting outside the official residence of Hyderabad Central University vice chancellor Apparao Podile who resumed charge on Tuesday.
Police used mild force to push back more than a hundred students who were agitating outside Podile's official residence. The students resorted to stone pelting but were driven back by the police.
Earlier in the morning, the agitating students ransacked Podile's office and residence, smashing glass panes and pulling down shelves. They also chanted the 'azadi' slogans made famous by JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar who is set to visit the campus a day later.
Prof Podile was back in office two months after he went on leave at the height of an agitation over the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula. Cyberabad police had registered a case against Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya, Podile and three others in connection with the suicide.
The protesting students demanded that the VC be immediately arrested. "Our primary demand is that the VC should not come...we lost Rohith Vemula. He (Podile) is one of the culprits. Its almost over two months since the incident but no action has been initiated,"a protester said.
D Prashant, one of the five suspended students, said the VC had no moral right to resume duties and conduct an Executive Committee meeting as a case with regard to Vemulas suicide was still pending against him.
"At the behest of (Union Minister) Venkaiah Naidu, he (VC) came to UoH (University of Hyderabad, also called HCU). At the behest of central government, he occupied the VC seat despite the fact that the whole University resisted it," he said.
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