55 Hyderabad University teachers on mass leave to protest police crackdown

Teachers of the Hyderabad Central University boycotted classes on 29 March to protest the police crackdown on students and the return of vice-chancellor P Appa Rao. A total of 55 teachers reportedly stayed away from the campus - including 40 teachers from the SC/ST categories.

Last week, P Appa Rao returned to office after a two-month-long leave. He was met with violent protests from the students and his office was vandalised.

The HCU campus has been a battlefield since January this year when 26-year-old Dalit student Rohith Vemula committed suicide. Police arrested 25 students and two faculty members from the university, who were later granted bail by a city court.

- With agency inputs