Hyderabad, March 31 -- Within 24 hours of intense University of Hyderabad (UoH) student protests against the Telangana government's decision to sell 400 acres of the university, bulldozers stormed on Sunday midnight, March 30, tearing down trees and flattening the area.

The clearance is part of the Telangana government's plan to sell 400 acres of prime land, including biodiversity and the Mushroom Rocks, which is about two billion years old.

Even as a PIL (public interest litigation) is pending at the Telangana High Court, for which the Congress government had sought time till April 4 to respond, it seems the state government is adamant on their decision.

The PIL sought the High Court to declare the disputed land an ecologically sensit...