Funeral procession of Andhra student taken to Assembly

Amid tight security, the body of Sai Kumar, a second year B. Tech student of Osmania University, was brought to Gun Park near the Andhra Pradesh state assembly on Tuesday night to enable supporters of the Telangana movement to pay their last respects.

Sai Kumar’s body was later taken to his native village Kodad in Nalgonda district where the last rites will be performed Wednesday.



The student hanged himself in his hostel room Tuesday to protest the delay in carving out a Telangana state. In his suicide note, he expressed the wish that his body be taken in a procession to the assembly.

The suicide triggered fresh tension in Osmania University, the nerve centre of the ongoing Telangana movement, as students clashed with police at Gandhi Hospital when the latter did not allow them to take the body to assembly. Some students were injured when police used batons.

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