Tensions at Osmania University: As it happened on Thursday

Tension prevailed at Osmania University on Thursday as police sealed the campus to prevent beef festival planned by some student groups and the pork festival and cow worship by their rivals.

10 December 2015

13:50 IST

A newspaper reports that organisers of the ‘beef festival’ have confined their event to hostel rooms due to police restrictions. Pictures of students eating beef items are being circulated on WhatsApp, says Hindustan Times. Police are tracing the origin of these pictures.

11:00 IST

Swami Paripoornanda Saraswati condemns the attempts to hold beef festival, says this would hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus as cow is considered sacred.