The protest passed off in Lagacharla village of Dudyala mandal.
Hyderabad:
At the very least 55 folks in Telangana’s Vikarabad district had been detained on Tuesday for allegedly attacking authorities officers throughout a protest towards acquisition of land for a pharmaceutical venture. The protest passed off in Lagacharla village of Dudyala mandal, which falls below Kodangal meeting seat represented by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.
4 officers – Kodangal Space Growth Authority (KADA) chairman Venkat Reddy, Deputy Superintendent of Police Srinivas Reddy, Extra Collector Lingya Naik and Mandal Income Officer Vijay Kumar – sustained accidents after villagers attacked the officers with sticks and threw stones at them.
Inspector Normal of Police (Multi Zone II) V. Satyanarayana instructed information company IANS that the assault on officers was “pre-planned” allegedly by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) youth wing chief B Suresh Raj, who’s on the run.
Satyanarayana additionally stated that police imagine 100-110 folks participated within the assault. “We are going to take stringent motion towards those that took half within the assault and those that instigated them,” he stated.
The incident passed off when a group of officers, led by Collector Prateek Jain, visited the village to hunt the locals’ opinion on the proposed land acquisition for the pharma venture.
Officers conscious of the small print stated the federal government is attempting to amass 1,358 acres of land for the pharma venture. Farmers, nonetheless, claimed the compensation provided is decrease than market charges, and have expressed their apprehensions about shedding their land and residential.
Police stated the Collector’s workplace had arrange a camp on Monday on the outskirts of Lagacharla to hunt public opinion when Raj approached the officers and urged them to go to the village as a substitute for the dialogue. Because the collector and his group reached the spot, the villagers attacked them and raised slogans similar to “collector return”.
“Raj had folks able to assault the officers who confirmed up,” Satyanarayana stated.
In the meantime, the staffers on the Collector’s workplace staged a dharna towards the assault, even because the official stated he was not attacked by the villagers. Different authorities workers within the district boycotted their duties on Tuesday and workers in the remainder of the state wore black badges, to protest towards the assault.
In an unique interview with EDNBOX, Telangana minister Sridhar Babu stated the state authorities has taken a critical view of the assault, which was deliberate by “political parts”. “There’s a conspiracy to cease improvement in Telangana,” he stated.
He additionally dismissed BRS working president Okay T Rama Rao’s allegation that the pharma venture would profit a relative of Chief Minister Reddy.