Assembly session, preventive arrests on the menu
BRS and BRSV leaders were detained or placed under house arrest in Hyderabad as the Assembly session continued. The police explanation remains missing from the record.
Police action continued as the Assembly session proceeded, without a public explanation in the record.
Police detained BRS spokesperson Manne Krishank and placed BRSV state president Gellu Srinivas Yadav under house arrest in Hyderabad on September 10, according to a Telangana Today report. The action came during the Assembly session, amid reports that BRS and BRSV leaders might attempt to lay siege to the Assembly after BRS MLAs were suspended.
Yadav said police visited student leaders’ homes around 5 a.m. and said the BRSV had not called for an Assembly bandh. He condemned the action as an attempt to suppress student voices. Those are Yadav’s claims; the supplied reporting does not include a police order, arrest memo, FIR or official explanation setting out the legal basis for the action.
Reports from September 8 also recorded police action against BRS leaders, including Krishank. The earlier September 7 Assembly-gate confrontation had already seen BRS leaders detained after a black-T-shirt protest; police said the slogans, not the clothing, were the issue and cited the Speaker’s instructions.
Allegations about Krishank’s daughter being stopped and a relative’s phone being taken remain unverified. Hyderabad Police has not publicly explained the September 10 action in the material reviewed. The Congress government’s preventive-action file, for now, has more blanks than pages.