AU professor's arrest triggers protests
VISAKHAPATNAM : With the arrest of associate professor J Appa Rao for alleged connections with the CPI Maoists, the AU campus erupted in anger as hundreds of students boycotted classes and came out in protest here Thursday.
Students, along with Appa Rao's relatives, staged a protest at the Administrative Block of the university condemning the arrest without any notice or information, that too late in the night.
Displaying placards, which read 'We want justice', students of various departments came in support of their professor, who, according to them, is a student-friendly teacher.
According to students, Appa Rao was a well-educated person with great human values and helping nature. He treated students on par with his family members spending a part of his salary to help students.
Y Sandhya, a final year MA student at the Telugu Department, criticised the police for taking him into custody without informing VC.
The situation turned worse with the police entering the university to disperse the agitators. A heated exchange of words between research scholars and cops ensued for some time. Research scholars and students stood beside Appa Rao's wife J Mynavathi who was in the protest along with her two children demanding justice.
At 10 am, students, scholars and others along with Appa Rao's family reached the District Rural Police Station and staged a protest. The agitators asked the cops to show Appa Rao to his wife, but they were told that he was taken to the Narsipatnam police station which is out of their bounds.
News Posted: 7 November, 2014
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