Hyderabad/New Delhi: Fresh protests by students broke out yesterday in Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai over the alleged "delay in justice" to the Hyderabad university Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula, who committed suicide, as they remained unrelenting in the demand for resignations of Union ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya. In Delhi, scores of students from varsities across the capital once again marched to the Human Resources Development Ministry where Delhi police detained 60 of them. According to police the students were detained due to security concerns from outside Shastri Bhawan and taken to Parliament Street police station.

A student shouts slogans demanding resignation of HRD Minister Smriti Irani as they are detained during a protest. PIC/PTI