Overview

• Osmania University police registered three cases and booked 11 people on charges of promoting enmity, with two men placed in preventive custody.
• Police said protesters burned a tyre and raised slogans outside the Navkar Gold shop in Habsiguda, with cases filed under Sections 196 and 49 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
• Hyderabad Cyber Crime Police opened a suo moto case into social media posts that propagated the slogan and a bandh call, and investigators are working to identify those behind the accounts.
• A few shops briefly shut in some localities on Friday as student groups pushed the bandh and police detained campus-linked organisers to stave off unrest.
• Political figures weighed in, with Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar calling the campaign politically motivated and MLA T Raja Singh urging strict action in support of the Marwadi community.