An FIR has been filed against the MLA of the Charminar Assembly constituency, Mumtaz Ahmed Khan, of the AIMIM, at the Hussaini Alam police station.
A person by name Ghulam Ghouse Jeelani filed the complaint against the MLA alleging that the legislator had attacked him physically.
Jeelani alleged that the MLA had come to his residence along with his personal security guards and beat him up. Jeelani said that when he asked the MLA the reason for beating him up, the MLA told him that he was being punished for not greeting him.
Jeelani said that he wasn't sure why he was expected to greet the MLA.
Jeelani also alleged that the family members of the MLA too had threatened to shoot him.
Responding to the complaint, the police decided to examine the CC footage of the incident.
Jeelani said that he had also taken up the issue with the president of the AIMIM and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, and claimed that Owaisi had asked him to observe restraint in the issue.