NSUI, Youth Congress workers barge into Home Minister Mahmood Ali's Hyderabad residence

HYDERABAD: High tension prevailed at the Ministers’ Quarters in Banjara Hills on Thursday when around 60 NSUI and Youth Congress workers tried to barge into the residence of Home Minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali. Shouting anti-government and anti-Home Minister slogans, in protest against the increasing attacks on Dalit women, the crowd forced its way through the main gates of the Ministers Quarters, despite security staff trying to prevent them. The pandemonium lasted for about an hour.

The trouble started at around 11.30 am when the crowd, led by Dalit Congress leader SA Sampath Kumar, NSUI president Balamuri Venkat, Youth Congress leader Anil Yadav reached the Ministers’ Quarters. Pushing the security guards aside, they squatted outside. After they threw open the main gate, police arrested all of them and took them to Goshamahal police station. Non-bailable cases were slapped on the youth activists and they were produced in court for judicial remand.

Covid-19 tests were conducted on all of them. The police listed Venkat as A1,  Sampath Kumar as A2 and Anil Kumar as A3. Taking serious exception to the arrests, AICC in-charge of Telangana Manickam Tagore, TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy and CLP leader M Bhatti Vikramarka, condemned the incident.

The non-bailable cases slapped against NSUI and Youth Congress workers include 

• Sec 147 (rioting), Sec 452 (house trespass), Sec 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to any person who is a public servant), Sec 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), Sec 506 (criminal intimidation)
• Sec 504 (intentionally insulting a person with an intention to provoke and break peace) 
• Sec 341 (Wrongful restraint) read with 149 (unlawful assembly)