Tension prevailed in the parts of the Old City late on Wednesday night with dozens of protesters converging at the Asha Talkies road and raising slogans against the BJP’s suspended legislator T. Raja Singh’s objectionable comments about Prophet Muhammed. The use of force to disperse the crowd and the dragging of an inmate from inside a house drew condemnation from Hyderabad parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi who described it as a use of “disproportionate force”.
After police had on Wednesday night cleared the Shalibanda crossroads, which had become the go-to spot for protests earlier, protesters began to gather at the Asha Talkies Roads, opposite the Golden Jewel building. By late evening on Wednesday, police had picked up over 200 protesters.
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