HYDERABAD: BRS legislator P. Kaushik Reddy was arrested by a special crime team of Banjara Hills police from his house in Kondapur on Thursday. Police teams lifted the MLA from his house along with 20 of his followers, who tried to obstruct the police officers and also seized the MLA’s car (TS 03FF 9999).
Kaushik was produced before a local court which gave him bail late in the night.
Police booked strong criminal charges against Kaushik, Manne Govardhan Reddy and others, who had barged into Banjara Hills police station and had threatened the SHO on Wednesday. Cases were booked against Kaushik based on the complaint filed by the SHO K.M. Raghavendra. He stated that the MLA and others behaved in a manner that would scare any public servant discharging their lawful duties.
Banjara Hills police booked cases for unlawful assembly, using force for obstructing the duties of a public servant, criminal intimidation, wrongful restraint and confinement, public nuisance and rioting. The case file was handed over to S.M. Basheer Ahmed, detective inspector of Banjara Hills police station.
The SHO narrated entire sequence of events that transpired from the time he was leaving the station around 3 pm and he was forcibly stopped by the MLA and his henchmen. “Despite requesting Kaushik and others they not listen and continued to bang on my car while hurling abuses at me,” the SHO stated. One of Kaushik’s followers warned the SHO of dire consequences. Later, Kaushik and his goons forcefully took the SHO into police station, FIR (number 1127 of 2024), stated.
Earlier, after recording Kaushik’s statement, cops took him to Osmania Hospital for medical examination.
