Telangana Police arrested two Bharat Rashtra Samithi Members of the Legislative Council on Tuesday under stringent sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act, following accusations of making derogatory public remarks against Legislative Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar.
Police teams took MLCs Thatha Madhusudan and N. Naveen Kumar Reddy into custody from their residences in Hyderabad and Khammam after local community organizations and ruling party lawmakers lodged formal criminal complaints. The controversy erupted during a televised press briefing where the opposition legislators criticized the Speaker’s procedural decisions regarding disqualification petitions against defecting lawmakers.
Complainants alleged that the remarks intentionally insulted the caste identity of the Speaker, who belongs to a marginalized community, thereby attracting immediate penal provisions under the anti-atrocities statute. Senior police officers confirmed that the arrested lawmakers were produced before a special sessions court in Nampally, which remanded them to fourteen days of judicial custody.
BRS working president K. T. Rama Rao strongly condemned the arrests as an authoritarian abuse of criminal law by the state government to silence legislative accountability. Opposition party cadres staged sit-in protests outside police stations across several district headquarters, demanding the immediate withdrawal of what they termed fabricated political charges.
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