Hyderabad: Policemen were treated to cake on their face as they tried to prevent some students from celebrating Valentine’s Day near Arts College on the Osmania University campus.
The police had moved in after complaints against the planned celebrations, and took 10 students into preventive detention.
As in the two previous years, Left-leaning students and activists from Dalit and tribal students’ organisations under the banner ‘Indian Lovers Unity’ planned to cut a cake and screen the documentary Banished Love to mark Valentine’s Day.
As the police tried to stop them, some students smeared cake on the face of some of police men. Asked about it later, the students said they were offering cake to the police which they refused, and the cake got smeared by mistake.
A senior university official said, “We had asked the police to maintain vigil due to the fear of clashes. Permission was given to screen the documentary at the ICSSR Hall but the students wanted to screen it near Arts College.”
Seven Leftist students who had been taken under preventive detention on Saturday after clashes over the arrest of JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar spent a second day under detention on Sunday. However, ABVP students were released on Saturday.
Elsewhere, 11 VHP activists in Secunderabad and seven Bajrang Dal activists in Kukatpally, who were protesting Valentine's Day celebrations, were picked up by the police.
