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Hyderabad: 17 booked in new FIR as EFLU students call off hunger strike

After more than a week on an indefinite hunger strike, the students of English and Foreign Language University (EFLU) ended their strike on Tuesday, November 14.

A student clarified that the protest was mainly ended due to health-related risk factors that could arise if they continued the strike.

Another student added that Vice Chancellor Prof E Suresh Kumar has asked the Proctor and other EFLU administration to end all communication with protesting students amid their demands for transparency in reaching a truce.

The students have been demanding that the proctorial board be removed while expressing no faith in its investigation into the sexual assault of a fellow student.

Following the protests, the university’s administration removed Proctor T Samson and appointed him Dean of Planning. They have also reportedly called for applications to take the place of Vice Chancellor Prof E Suresh Kumar, whose one-year extensio

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