Two former Hyderabad University students have been arrested for conspiring to kill the vice chancellor.

The East Godavari police of Andhra Pradesh today arrested two former students of Hyderabad University for allegedly conspiring to murder vice chancellor V Appa Rao.

The two who have been identified as Ankala Prudviraj (27), native of Krishna district and Chandan Kumar Mishra (28) from West Bengal's Howrah are suspected to have hatched the murder plan to avenge Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide.

The duo were allegedly returning from Bastar forests after receiving training under FTP Maoists leadership and were held from the Telangana Andhra Chattisgarh tri-junction area.

They are also suspected to have met Yapa Narayana alias Haribhushan, the secretary of Telangana State Committee of CPI (Maoist) in Bastar.

ROHITH VEMULA SUICIDE

Research scholar Rohith Vemula had committed suicide in his hostel room of Hyderabad University on January 17, 2016.

Following which a nation-wide protest ensued demanding justice for Rohith Vemula and a clarion call to end the subjugation of Dalits.

The Ambedkar Student Union of University had then also demanded the arrest of VC P Appa Rao, the then HRD minister Smriti Irani and former minister Bandaru Dattatrey under abetment of suicide sections.