Hyderabad: Congress leaders protest ‘unlawful’ arrest of party leaders

Hyderabad: Telangana congress leaders protested at Gandhi Bhavan over the ‘unlawful’ detention of Congress Political strategist Sunil Kanugolu for a derogatory social media post against Chief Minister K Chandra Shekar Rao.

Congress leaders said that Sunil Kanugolu was detained by the Cyberabad Police and also conducted searches at his office, seized computers, and arrested 5 others, congress workers, in the office without issuing notices to them.

In view of the call given by the opposition party for protest in all Mandal headquarters, police made a preventive arrest of the leaders.