While MIM floor leader and Chandrayanagutta MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi has been ushered to Gandhi Hospital for a
check-up, the city of Hyderabad has been turned into a war-zone of sorts, with police forces being deployed in all the comunally sensitive areas, including Old City, and those around Gandhi Hospital.
No news has been forthcoming from the hospital as to what the results of the tests could be, but the police say that they are prepared for any eventuality.
Several roads in Old City have been barricaded, and an eye is being kept on all localities considered to be MIM strongholds. The police have also warned people against gather in groups. A few MIM leaders have already been arrested to in anticipation of an incendiary law-and-order situation.
In case of being given the green signal to the arrest of Akbaruddin, police fear rioting and violence in all these areas, and are therefore being as well prepared to handle the situation as they can.
Akbaruddin Owaisi was driven to Gandhi Hospital earlier today upon the instructions of the police at Nirmal, Adilabad, before whom he was supposed to appear
yesterday, for a medical check-up to verify his claims of ill-health, which he used to justify his demands of a delay in arrest.
Although he had looked healthy enough to appear before the police, Owaisi had claimed to be suffering from "internal pains".
15 doctors have been instructed to conduct as many as 11 tests on Owaisi. No decisions on what action to take can be made until the results of these tests have been disclosed, say the police.
It may be mentioned that cases have been registered against Owaisi with respect to allegations of his having made inflammatory speeches at Nirmal in Adilabad, and in Nizamabad town.