2 ex-Hyd University students held for planning to kill VC
The Andhra Pradesh Police has arrested two former Hyderabad University students for conspiring to kill Vice Chancellor Appa Rao Podile. Police said CPI(Maoist) leaders directed the duo to murder Rao. Claiming that students criticised Rao over the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, the accused had told Maoists that killing the VC would attract students to the banned party.