A case was booked against Goshamahal MLA T. Raja Singh by the Mangalhat police for damaging public property and violating prohibitory orders here on Sunday. V. Satyanarayana, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), West Zone, said that, communal tension had been avoided in the area of Sitarampet, after police intervened and diffused the situation.
According to Mr. Satyanarayana, three to four people began constructing a four-foot wall around a road-side Ganesh temple at Sitarampet in the Mangalhat police station limits on Sunday. Trouble ensued when people from another community objected to it, as the work did not have permission from the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). However, before any serious incident could take place, Goshamahal and Mangalhat police intervened, and ensured that no untoward incident took place.
“After that situation was defused with the cooperation of the temple committee, however, Raja Singh, later on, along with 20 followers came, and began constructing the wall again. “We told him that we can’t allow him, and a case was registered against him,” he said.
Thereafter, a case was booked against the MLA and 20 of his followers by the Mangalhat police station, under sections 447, 427, 188 read with 149, under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), for damaging public property and violating prohibitory orders issued by the Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad. “Timely action by the police averted trouble and disturbance,” said Mr. Satyanarayana.
