Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged that the personal assistant and the public relations officer of the party working president, KT Rama Rao, were attacked by “15 masked goons” during their questioning at the Saifabad police station earlier on Monday, September 14.
The Congress has yet to react to this allegation.
KTR’s PRO Mahesh Manickya and PA Mahender Reddy were summoned to the police station on the basis of a complaint by Busaramoni Jangaiah, a Reserve Inspector at the City Armed Reserve Headquarters.
The duo faces first information reports (FIRs) for allegedly obstructing police personnel from discharging their duties during the confrontation outside the state Assembly on the first day of the Monsoon Session.
Taking to X, the party wrote: “A ‘Goonda Raj’ (rule of thugs) is prevailing in Telangana under Revanth Reddy’s leadership.”
Claiming that the alleged attack was ‘orchestrated by the Congress government’, the party summoned its leaders and workers to reach the police station.
KTR also wrote a long post on X, demanding an inquiry. While refraining from identifying the ‘attackers’ as Congress workers, KTR said, “Was this the handiwork of Congress goons? Or was it a conspiracy orchestrated by masked police personnel in plainclothes to carry out this attack? An inquiry by a sitting judge must be ordered immediately.”
MLA T. Harish Rao has also condemned the alleged attack on Reddy and Mahesh, calling the assailants “masked police personnel”. In a post on X, the Siddipet MLA said, “On a festival day, under the pretext of questioning, they were summoned to the police station, and at around 6.30 pm, approximately 15 masked police personnel attempted an assault.”
Rao claimed that the policemen barged into the interrogation room and attacked the PA and PRO. He added that the BRS’s legal team witnessed the incident, raised alarms and intervened, causing the attackers to flee from the spot.
The former Telangana minister accused the government of sending masked personnel from the task force to assault the men. He asked whether the government would resort to physical attacks because the BRS exposes its mistakes.
“Even though the High Court has issued orders not to take any action until further directives are released in this case… disregarding even those and attempting this attack is nothing but a contempt of court orders,” Rao added.
The BRS MLA sought a response from Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy over the alleged assault and demanded that the full closed-circuit television camera footage of the incident inside the police station be released at the earliest.
