Hours after learning about the plan of Goshamahal MLA T. Raja Singh to visit Pittal Basti in Chengicherla, a posse of police officials swooped on his residence and informed him about his house arrest on Thursday. The legislator had shared his plan to visit Chengicherla, Medipally, which has been racked by communal tension from March 24.
Officials from the Hyderabad city police said that they were given orders from the State police to place the legislator under house arrest as a preventive measure. “We were told that the higher officials have received information from the Rachakonda police about Raja Singh planning to visit Chengicherla and orders were passed accordingly,” said an official from the city police.
Earlier in the day, the Medipally police of Rachakonda booked cases against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar and others for obstructing police deployed for bandobast duty at Chengicherla. The police booked the cases by citing that the inspector of Nacharam police, A. Nandishwar Reddy, sustained injuries in the commotion.
