40 RSYF members held for trying to picket Raj Bhavan

About 40 activists of the Revolutionary Students and Youth Front (RYSF) were detained today for trying to picket the Raj Bhavan over the suicides of a Dalit scholar in Hyderabad and three students of a private college in Villupuram last week.
The protesting students were detained at Saidapet before they could proceed to the Raj Bhavan, police said.
The protesters demanded a proper probe into the deaths of Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula of Hyderabad Central University and that of three girls - V Priyanka, T Monisha and E Saranya, all students of a Yoga and Naturopathy college at Chinna Salem in Villupuram district, and sought action against those involved in these cases.