With the supporters of separate Telangana state hell bent upon their Million March program on Thursday, Hyderabad city has been effectively cut off from the other parts of Telangana as the police have sealed all the entry and exit points and was on the spree of rounding up thousands of people to foil their protest programme.
Travelling from airport to Navrangpura, at the heart of the city and then to Motera at the other corner, not for once did it feel like there is a marquee cricket match being hosted in the city, tickets of which are already sold out.
The Centre on Friday sent about 500 security personnel to Hyderabad to strengthen law and order situation in the wake of twin blasts in the city that claimed 16 lives.
The photos of the two suspects were released in Hyderabad.
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Telangana T Raja Singh has been booked for allegedly delivering a hate speech at a rally in Mumbai on January 29, a police official said on Thursday.
The sanction to hand over the plot of about 50 acres in Indri village of Nuh to the Rapid Action Force came earlier this week.
'It is amazing at Golconda Fort. It was a fantastic two days in Hyderabad,' she said.
Following the twin blasts in Hyderabad, the city police is in touch with their counterparts in New Delhi, who have conducted an investigation on several Indian Mujahideen operatives, alleged to be linked to the blasts. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The arrests were made from different districts of Tripura by teams of Assam police's special task force, he said.
Based on a private complaint filed under Section 200 of the CrPC by Raghavendra Raju, the judicial officer "acted in undue haste" without conducting any preliminary enquiry and without recording the statement of the complainant, the high court said.
The police on Friday picked up four men from Hyderabad in connection with the terror module that was recently busted in Bangalore. One of them is Obaid Ur Rehmanan, a BCom student at the Anwar Uloom College and a resident of Baba Nagar in the Old City.
Just a day after the blasts, the police came to the conclusion that the blasts had been carried out by HuJI.
The police said Rohit, 3, son of Ravinder Reddy, working in a leading software company, was abducted from a play-ground near the apartment where the family is residing.
Condemning the alleged attack during the state-wide padayatra called praja prasthanam taken up by her in Warangal district on Monday, the YSR Telangana Party chief marched towards the chief minister's camp office.
A 16-year-old student allegedly died by suicide in Hyderabad even as his family accused the college management and some members of the teaching faculty of harassing him and held them responsible for his death, the police said on Wednesday.
Cruelty by the husband (or his relatives) accounted for about 40 per cent of these cases. Delhi reported the highest number of cases of crimes against women (12,552) followed by Mumbai with over 5,000 cases.
Some police encounters that stunned India.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said the accused in the Kanhaiya Lal killing case in Udaipur were 'linked' to the Bharatiya Janata Party and should have been 'hanged by now' but the investigation by the National Investigation Agency was not progressing as it should.
While talking to mediapersons in Mahbubabad, Sharmila said, "He (KCR) is a dictator, he is a tyrant, there is no Indian Constitution in Telangana, there is only KCR's Constitution. Telangana is the Afghanistan of India and KCR is its Taliban."
Nearly 500 Bharatiya Janata Party workers, including former Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya and BJP national secretary Dr K Laxman, were taken into preventive custody for holding protests in front of the police commissionerate in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
The police suspect that left-wing extremists may infiltrate the "Chalo Assembly" protest and spark violence during the stir called by the Telangana Joint Action Committee on June 14.
The Australian team arrived in Hyderabad on Monday amid tight security for a four-day match against the Board President's XI.
Jarange, whose hunger strike at Antarwali Sarati village in Jalna district for reservation for the community in government jobs and education entered 12th day, also rejected the fresh outcome of talks held with a delegation of Maratha community leaders and the government late on Friday night in Mumbai.
Security has been tightened across Hyderabad on the eve of the release of the Srikrishna Committee's report on the formation of a separate Telangana state.
Maratha quota protester Manoj Jarange, who has been on a hunger strike in Maharashtra's Jalna district, said on Thursday that their agitation will continue till the state relaxes the condition of genealogy while giving Kunbi caste certificate to the community members from the Marathwada region.
An employee of 108 Ambulance service, who tried to rescue them fell ill after inhaling the poisonous gas, said R Kalinga Rao, Madhapur Police Inspector.
BCCI and Cricket Australia officials on Monday reviewed the security arrangements in Hyderabad and met the city's police commissioner ahead of the second cricket Test between India and Australia, scheduled to be held from March 2-5.
Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh, arrested on charges of gunning down his senior officer and three passengers on a moving train last week, has now been booked for promoting enmity between groups, while a court in Mumbai on Monday extended his police custody till August 11.
A massive data breach that has implications for national security was unearthed by the Cyberabad Police in Hyderabad, who arrested seven people of a gang allegedly involved in the theft and sale of sensitive data of the government and important organisations, including details of defence personnel as well as the personal and confidential data of about 16.8 crore citizens.
A clash erupted between All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen and BJP councillors of the Meerut Municipal Corporation at the oath-taking ceremony on Friday, following a disagreement over the singing of Vande Mataram to begin the event.
The suspended Bharatiya Janata Party MLA was picked up under Act No.1 of 1986 (Preventive Detention Act), police said.
Hyderabad city was under a security blanket on the eve of the third anniversary of bomb blast in historic Mecca Masjid as hundreds of armed policemen were deployed in the city to prevent any untoward incident.
Police sources said the case of firing on the cops has been handed over to the Special Investigations Team as it has assumed more significance because Viqaruddin was believed to be planning a major terror attack in the city coinciding with the demolition of Babri Masjid.
Khwaja is a self styled commander of the HuJI and had concentrated largely on operations in south India. The police say that he is likely to have information on the manner in which the HuJI had masterminded the Hyderabad twin blasts.
For Muslims in the Old City of Hyderabad, the anger against the police seems to be growing with each passing day. A majority of the people say that the people who have suffered the most in the aftermath of the blasts are the victims and the Muslim community
With communal violence spreading to many more areas of Hyderabad city and miscreants killing another man on Tuesday, the authorities have clamped curfew in the limits of eight more police stations.
Geeta Johri, the investigating officer in the case, is likely to visit the CRPF Mess in Chandrayangutta.
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