Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi appealed to the citizens to ensure peaceful Friday prayers today and said that their โbiggest demandโ of getting BJP leader T Raja Singh detained and suspended over his remarks on Prophet Mohammad has been fulfilled.
Earlier on Thursday, protests erupted in Telangana following the alleged remarks by the suspended BJP leader on Prophet Mohammed. Singh has been detained under the Preventive Detention Act (PD Act) and is being lodged in Central Prison, Cheriapally, said Hyderabad Police on Thursday. โI also urge all of you to not raise any such slogans after the Friday prayers, which may hamper the countryโs harmonyโฆ Let peace prevail,โ Owaisi said in a press conference in Hyderabad.
โOur biggest demand โ of getting him arrested โ has been fulfilled under PD Act. I urge all to ensure peaceful Friday prayers tomorrow,โ he added.
Suspended BJP MLA T Raja Singh has been detained under the Preventive Detention Act (PD Act) and is being lodged in Central Prison, Cheriapally, said Hyderabad Police on Thursday.
According to the police, 101 criminal cases were registered against the suspended BJP leader who was โinvolved in 18 communal offencesโ.
โT. Raja Singh has been detained under Act No.1 of 1986 on August 25 i.e. P.D Act as per the orders of the Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City,โ said the police.
The police said that Singh has been โhabitually delivering provocative and inflammatory speechesโ and โdriving a wedge between communities leading to public disorderโ.
Referring to the video released by Singh on YouTube, the police said that the protests erupted in different parts of Hyderabad City and other parts of Telangana after the video went viral, and โdrove a wedge between communities and disturbed the peaceful nature of Hyderabad and Telangana Stateโ.
The police said in a release that the detainee commented: โvery blasphemously against Prophet Mohammed and his lifestyleโ.
He was earlier taken into custody on Tuesday. However, he was released after a Court order.
The FIR was registered against him at the Dabeerpura Police Station under sections 153(A), 295, and 505 of the Indian Penal Code.
The BJP suspended the MLA and said his remarks were against the partyโs line.
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