Keeping its
word, the state police department slapped several cases under the Railway Protection Act against Telangana activists and leaders, including MPs and MLAs, for participating in the
rail roko agitation that began on Saturday.
Police arrested Congress MPs S Rajaiah and G Vivek, TRS MP Vijaya Shanti, MLA T Harish Rao and Telangana Jagruthi president K Kavitha.
According to Additional DGP (Law & Order) and police spokesperson S A Huda, the leaders were arrested under the Railway Protection Act, at different places.
MPs Balaram Naik, Madhu Yashki and Ponnam Prabhakar, and MLAs Kavitha and Koppula Eshwar, have also been arrested.
Huda said that TRS MLA K T Rama Rao was arrested under Sections 353 and 506 of the IPC for abusing the police at Seethaphalamandi Police Station in Hyderabad.
In Hyderabad city, 63 cases were booked in connection with the
rail roko, and 49 people were arrested.
In Cyberabad police limits, 136 persons were arrested in 18 cases under Section 151 of the Cr. PC.
Another 88 persons were arrested for 8 specific offences, including 4 cases under the Railway Act 1989.
The police said that 718 persons were taken into preventive custody in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday, across the Telangana region, as many as 2,382 were arrested, which include 2,133 cases of preventive arrests.
Police arrested 322 people in Mahabubnagar, 260 in Medak, 268 in Nalgonda, 197 in Nizamabad, 347 in Adilabad, 248 in Khammam, 115 in Karimnagar, 245 in Warangal, 73 in Ranga Reddy and 307 in the state capital.
According to Huda, unknown miscreants removed track clips (80) rings between the Gatepally railway gate and Elgur railway station, at Nekkonda in Warangal district, and between Kothapally and Peddapally railway stations in Karimnagar district.
Huda said that a sub-inspector named Yousuf Jani Mohd and his gunman were injured in a stone-pelting incident at Mahabubabad in Warangal district.
At Osmania University, police used teargas after the agitators pelted stones, he said.
In Cyberabad, an Assistant Drill Instructor and 2 police constables were injured when stones were thrown at the bus in which they were travelling. (INN)