Police detain MLA again, Telangana moves HC against order freeing him | India News
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HYDERABAD: Two days after he was arrested for making derogatory remarks against the Prophet in a video, the now suspended BJP MLA T Raja Singh was detained under Preventive Detention (PD) Act on Thursday and sent to jail for trying to disrupt “peace and public tranquillity”.
The unprecedented move — it is the first that a public representative has been booked under the PD Act — came soon after Raja Singh released a second video declaring that he wasn’t scared of anybody and feared nothing. He also put the blame of causing communal discord on the ruling TRS.
The Telangana HC, meanwhile, will hear on Friday the state government’s plea challenging a Hyderabad trial court’s rejection of a police remand report and setting Raja free before he was to be remanded in judicial custody. The trial court had rejected the police remand report on the grounds that due procedure was not followed and freed the MLA on August 23.
Police, which filed the plea before the HC on Thursday, said the trial court had erred by not looking at the issue in its entirety. Police said 11 FIRs had been registered against Raja’s video, which he had uploaded to YouTube on August 22 with, according to the police, the sole intention of creating communal tension.
Police, in their affidavit, said that the MLA was facing 17 more FIRs in various police stations registered in the last few years for attempts to incite communal violence.
The unprecedented move — it is the first that a public representative has been booked under the PD Act — came soon after Raja Singh released a second video declaring that he wasn’t scared of anybody and feared nothing. He also put the blame of causing communal discord on the ruling TRS.
The Telangana HC, meanwhile, will hear on Friday the state government’s plea challenging a Hyderabad trial court’s rejection of a police remand report and setting Raja free before he was to be remanded in judicial custody. The trial court had rejected the police remand report on the grounds that due procedure was not followed and freed the MLA on August 23.
Police, which filed the plea before the HC on Thursday, said the trial court had erred by not looking at the issue in its entirety. Police said 11 FIRs had been registered against Raja’s video, which he had uploaded to YouTube on August 22 with, according to the police, the sole intention of creating communal tension.
Police, in their affidavit, said that the MLA was facing 17 more FIRs in various police stations registered in the last few years for attempts to incite communal violence.
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