Overview

• Cases were registered against eleven people linked to Friday's bandh call and street protests, including tyre burning, police said.
• In a related step, a social media activist identified as Shyam P was taken into preventive custody and later released.
• Earlier, Osmania University police arrested several students and OU JAC chairman Kothapalli Tirupati following campus tensions over the bandh call.
• The protests followed allegations that some Marwari men beat an individual in Secunderabad and used caste-based slurs, which authorities have not independently verified.
• Protesters have accused traders from Gujarat and Rajasthan of undercutting local businesses and selling counterfeit goods, while leaders including Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar and MLA T Raja Singh issued opposing statements on the campaign.