Hyderabad: Life is back to normal in the Telangana region on Andhra Pradesh even as Osmania University campus remains tense. There is heavy police deployment in and around Osmania University.
Section 144 (unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapon) will remain in force in Hyderabad till 6 AM on July 14.
Meanwhile, the Telangana Joint Action Committee has organised a students' rally in the region to keep up the pressure for a separate state.
Political parties claim that the rally will be a show of strength and send a message to the Centre that the movement for a separate state of Telangana is not only a political movement but also a popular movement.
On Wednesday students at Osmania University fought pitched battles with security
personnel when they were prevented from taking out a rally in support of their demands for deletion of Clause 14 (F) in the Presidential Order of 1971 which made Hyderabad a free zone for police recruitment, and in support of separate Telangana.
The students pelted stones at the security personnel who lobbed 15 teargas shells to disperse them. The clashes continued intermittently. A TV channel reporter was injured while covering the clashes.
The police took into preventive custody, among others, JAC convener M Kodandaram, BJP leaders Bandaru Dattatreya and Vidyasagar Rao.
Police said as many as 688 pro-Telangana protesters were taken into preventive custody in Hyderabad and Cyberabad Police Commissionerate limits. Two buses were burnt at various places in the city while agitators damaged glass windows of a medical shop in Sanathnagar.
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