Hyderabad, April 2 -- The students holding protests against the felling of forest located in Hyderabad Central University campus were lathicharged on Wednesday morning.

The police carried out a lathicharge to disperse the protesting students demonstrating against the actions of the Telangana government.

Amid ongoing chaos over 400 acres land dispute surrounding Hyderabad Central University, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha on Wednesday suggested the state government should use land which was not adjacent to the university, to create infrastructure for software companies or other industries. She said that the Congress government's bulldozing of HCU's land reveals a "disregard" for the environment and academic sanctity.

"If the...