By IANS,
Hyderabad : Hyderabad police Sunday booked an Andhra Pradesh minister and his aides for assaulting a Dalit supporter of the Telangana movement.
A case under the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was filed against Labour Minister D. Nagender and his aides at Tukaramgate police station in Secunderabad, after one of the victims lodged a complaint. However, no one was arrested.
Shravan Kumar, who sustained bleeding injuries, lodged the complaint against the minister.
It all started when some protestors, demanding the minister’s resignation in support of separate Telangana state, threw eggs on his convoy when he was attending a function. According to eye witnesses, the minister rushed menacingly towards the protesters and his men thrashed three youth.
Nagender’s cabinet colleague Shankar Rao staged a “sit-in” outside the police station demanding his arrest. The textiles minister demanded that Nagender be sacked from the ministry.
Shankar Rao said he would meet Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi Monday to demand action against Nagender.
Both the ministers are from Hyderabad but Nagender is opposed to the demand for separate Telangana state.
Telangana Joint Action Committee convenor M. Kodandaram also demanded Nagender’s arrest for attacking a Dalit youth. He said the minister and his “goondas (goons)” assaulted the youth for raising slogans of “Jai Telangana”.