Hyderabad: At least 14 members of ABVP and AISF were today taken into preventive custody at the Osmania University after they got into a heated argument over a planned protest against JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar's arrest in Delhi.
AISF members had gathered in front of Arts College on the campus for burning an effigy of the Central government to protest Kanhaiya's arrest, demand his immediate release and dropping of sedition charge against him.
But a group of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad members objected to it, which led to a row. The members of two organisations almost came to blows before the police stepped in.
"Police immediately intervened and separated students and took them away....there was no clash...situation is completely peaceful," university police station's Inspector Ashok Reddy told Press Trust of India.
Ten members of ABVP and four of All India Students Federation were taken into preventive custody, he said.
Kanhaiya Kumar, a member of the CPI's student wing AISF, was arrested in connection with an event against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. There were allegations that anti-India slogans were raised during the event.
AISF members had gathered in front of Arts College on the campus for burning an effigy of the Central government to protest Kanhaiya's arrest, demand his immediate release and dropping of sedition charge against him.
But a group of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad members objected to it, which led to a row. The members of two organisations almost came to blows before the police stepped in.
Ten members of ABVP and four of All India Students Federation were taken into preventive custody, he said.
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