Hyderabad: Student leaders detained ahead of ‘Chalo Secretariat’ rally

The police swooped down on hostels at Osmania University, Ashoknagar, Dilsukhnagar, Secunderabad and other places and took the student leaders into custody.

Hyderabad: Several government job aspirants and student leaders were arrested near Tank Bund and neighbouring regions, when they tried to lay siege to the Secretariat on Monday morning, as a part of the ‘Chalo Secretariat’ protest call given by student organizations and unemployed youth associations for the postponement of DSC a and Group II examinations.

Students and government job aspirants started gathering around Telangana Secretariat building in small batches. However, hundreds of policemen including the Quick Response Team (QRT), Commissioner’s Task Force and local police identified the probable protestors and detained them.

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A few youngsters managed to rush towards the Secretariat building and sat on the road. The police picked them up and shifted them into police vehicles. All of them were shifted to different police stations and Goshamahal police stadium.

Since morning the police had set up barricades on the roads leading to the State Secretariat and lathi-wielding policemen were guarding traffic junctions. The police also posted personnel at Lumbini Park to prevent people from going into the Hussainsagar and holding any protest there.

To deal with untoward incidents the mounted police, water cannons and tear gas units were deployed at the places.

The police in view of the protest call took several leaders across the State into preventive custody. In city the police swooped down on the leaders in the early hours of the day at their houses and hostels. Huge police deployment was witnessed at Ashoknagar, RTC cross roads, Osmania University, Secunderabad PG college, Nizam College and few other places.