Owaisi brothers behind bars, Hyd shuts down
23 Jan 2013 6:33 AM IST
An Andhra Pradesh court Tuesday dismissed the bail petition of MIM chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi in a seven-year-old case and another court extended the judicial custody of his brother Akbaruddin Owaisi in a hate speech case.
Asaduddin Owaisi is a Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad while his younger brother is a member of the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly.
The MP received another setback when a court in Sangareddy town in Medak district near Hyderabad dismissed his bail plea.
Asaduddin Owaisi had Monday appeared before the court, seeking recall of a non-bailable warrant pending against him in connection with a case booked against him in 2005.
The court, however, dismissed his plea and sent him to judicial custody for two weeks. The MP was later shifted to a jail in Sangareddy.
Asaduddin Owaisi and other Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leaders were booked by police when they tried to prevent officials from demolishing a place of worship for expanding a road at Mutangi village in the same district.
Shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed Tuesday, while buses of State-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) and auto-rickshaws were off the roads in the old city and other Muslim-majority areas in Hyderabad.
The usually busy markets around historic Charminar wore a deserted look. Police and paramilitary forces were deployed in the communally sensitive areas to prevent any untoward incident.
The shutdown was partial in Sangareddy and other towns of Medak district, Karimnagar, Adilabad and other districts in Telangana and also in Anantapur in Rayalaseema region.
Asaduddin Owaisi is a Lok Sabha member from Hyderabad while his younger brother is a member of the Andhra Pradesh state legislative assembly.
The MP received another setback when a court in Sangareddy town in Medak district near Hyderabad dismissed his bail plea.
Asaduddin Owaisi had Monday appeared before the court, seeking recall of a non-bailable warrant pending against him in connection with a case booked against him in 2005.
The court, however, dismissed his plea and sent him to judicial custody for two weeks. The MP was later shifted to a jail in Sangareddy.
Asaduddin Owaisi and other Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leaders were booked by police when they tried to prevent officials from demolishing a place of worship for expanding a road at Mutangi village in the same district.
Shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed Tuesday, while buses of State-owned Road Transport Corporation (RTC) and auto-rickshaws were off the roads in the old city and other Muslim-majority areas in Hyderabad.
The usually busy markets around historic Charminar wore a deserted look. Police and paramilitary forces were deployed in the communally sensitive areas to prevent any untoward incident.
The shutdown was partial in Sangareddy and other towns of Medak district, Karimnagar, Adilabad and other districts in Telangana and also in Anantapur in Rayalaseema region.
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