hyderabad barring a few sporadic incidents the save andhra pradesh public meeting held by apngos at lb stadium on saturday went off peacefully however all through the day tension was palpable and citizens preferred to stay indoors in the backdrop of the bandh call given by telangana joint action committee tjac as the employees of seemandhra region started descending on lb stadium in the morning the charged up students of nizam college hostel welcomed them with jai telangana slogans around 9 am the city police entered the hostel looking for nonboarders fearing that they might have been holed up to create trouble at least 20 students were taken into custody by police amid heavy sloganeering it was at this time the agitated students started pelting stones at police and also employees of the seemandhra region who were entering the stadium from the gate abutting nizam hostel after nearly 30 minutes police resorted to mild lathicharge and brought the situation under control many students protested from the terrace of the hostel a protestor accidentally slipped from the staircase and suffered injuries mild clashes broke between a few students of ou and seemandhra employees when five students reached lb stadium near basheerbagh press club showing black flags and raising slogans in support of telangana the seemandhra employees who were waiting to go inside started raising counter slogans in support of samaikyandhra within a few minutes the employees of seemandhra thrashed two students black and blue when they tried to barge into the stadium the students were pinned to the ground and thrashed oujac leader balaraj yadav who fell unconscious was shifted to a private hospital at goshamahal there was a mild lathicharge at the traffic complex also when protelangana agitators wanted to take out rally till nizam hostel meanwhile when a few students of oujac went to lay siege to the apngos office at abids they were immediately arrested by police seemandhra employees staged a protest meeting on the road adjacent to all india radio and raised slogans against upa chairperson sonia gandhi a large contingent of security personnel including greyhounds octopus and paramilitary forces were deployed around lb stadium and several roads including the lakdikapulnampally stretch leading to the venue were sealed meanwhile students and security forces fought pitched battles on the ou campus the agitators took out a rally till ncc gate and they were stalled by police after heated argument students started pelting stones and police countered them with teargas shells over 300 students participated in the rally and it went on till 3 pm two mediapersons who were covering the incident were injured early in the day miscreants rained stones on three buses carrying seemandhra employees at hayathnagar in the evening two buses in which seemandhra employees were returning home were attacked at malakpet and peddamberpet by protelangana activists by pelting stones it is learnt that a couple of passengers were injured in the attackcentre splitting families says apngo chief by braving your way to hyderabad and waiting