After Akbaruddin Owaisi's sensational
arrest for his recent hate speeches, his lawyer Mohammad Shafeeq has gone ballistic, claiming that Owaisi had never tried to evade arrest.
According to him, the medical report of the tests that he had purportedly gone through (he was at Gandhi Hospital with the Hyderabad police for 6 and a half hours, no less) was not furnished to either him or Owaisi. He complained that he was simply whisked away (the police are shifting him to Nirmal), and added that Owaisi had not eaten since 10:30am. He was not even allowed to take his bare minimum personal belongings, he said.
Mohammad Shafeeq claims that Owaisi has been cooperating with the law all along.
"We have exhibited total patience. Is that not enough proof that we are cooperating with the law?" he thundered.
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