Owaisi’s arrest sparks tension in Hyderabad
22 Jan 2013 7:23 AM IST
MIM chief and MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s arrest sparked violent protests and shutdown in parts of the city on Monday as police went on high alert to prevent more trouble.
MIM workers took to the streets in the old city and other areas to protest Owaisi’s arrest. They hurled stones at buses and shops in the posh Banjara Hills, MJ Market, Lakdi Ka Pul, Amberpet and Patthargatti areas. They raised slogans against the Congress government and burnt effigies of chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
Tension gripped the communally sensitive old city and some parts of Hyderabad after Owaisi was sent to jail till 2 February by a court in Sangareddy town in Medak district in a seven-year-old case. The MIM leader, his younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi, and others were booked by police on 16 March, 2005, for obstructing officials from carrying out demolition at a place of worship to facilitate road extension at Muttangi village.
Shops and business establishments were shut in the old city, which’s MIM stronghold, and in commercial hubs like MJ Market, Nampally, Mallepally and Banjara Hills.
MIM workers took to the streets in the old city and other areas to protest Owaisi’s arrest. They hurled stones at buses and shops in the posh Banjara Hills, MJ Market, Lakdi Ka Pul, Amberpet and Patthargatti areas. They raised slogans against the Congress government and burnt effigies of chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
Tension gripped the communally sensitive old city and some parts of Hyderabad after Owaisi was sent to jail till 2 February by a court in Sangareddy town in Medak district in a seven-year-old case. The MIM leader, his younger brother Akbaruddin Owaisi, and others were booked by police on 16 March, 2005, for obstructing officials from carrying out demolition at a place of worship to facilitate road extension at Muttangi village.
Shops and business establishments were shut in the old city, which’s MIM stronghold, and in commercial hubs like MJ Market, Nampally, Mallepally and Banjara Hills.
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