Suspended BJP MLA T Raja Singh detained in Hyderabad for remarks about Prophet Muhammad

Hyderabad, August 25: The Telangana Police detained suspended Bharatiya Janata Party leader T Raja Singh for allegedly making disparaging comments about Prophet Muhammad.

 

 

The police detained him under the Preventive Detention Act. A press release by the police claimed that Singh had been “habitually delivering provocative and inflammatory speeches and driving a wedge between communities leading to public disorder”.

 

The police also accused him of being involved in 18 “communal offenses” registered across different police stations in Hyderabad. Singh was taken into custody from his home in Hyderabad. Visuals released by ANI showed his supporters shouting slogans of “Jai Shri Ram” as he was being taken into a police vehicle.

 

 

 

Singh was arrested in the case on August 23 but was granted bail by a Hyderabad court hours later. He was also suspended on the same day. The court had rejected the police’s demand for custody, saying they had not served a notice to Singh under Section 41A of the Code of Criminal Procedure before arresting him.

 

Meanwhile, Singh, in a video released on his Twitter handle on Thursday afternoon, had said that he may be arrested soon.