Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday, 5 December, slammed Telangana Police after they detained Congress leader A Revanth Reddy for “threatening” to stop a public meeting of TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao.
Police detained Reddy on Tuesday, 4 December, four days ahead of the state elections.
Asking if Telangana was a “banana republic”, the high court summoned the state police chief, reported NDTV.
The Election Commission has also ordered the removal of the superintendent of police of Telangana’s Vikarabad district over Reddy’s arrest, after the police observer found his detention “unwarranted”.