Various dalit organizations protested against the way in which former minister Dr P Shankar Rao was whisked away from his residence by police.
Dalit organizations tried to storm Secretariat in protests against the manhandling of the senior Congress leader.
Members of the dalit groups were taken into custody.
Dr Shankar Rao was accused in a land scam case and police took him for questioning to Neredmet police station, where he fell ill. He was later shifted to a government hospital from where he was shifted to a corporate hospital.
Meanwhile, Shankar Rao’s brother-in-law and Congress MP G Vivek met Union Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in Delhi and complained against Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy for the unruly behavior of police.
He said that the Chief Minister has been alienating one section after the other. With the arrest of MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, he has distanced Congress from minorities and with the incident of Shankar Rao he has alienated dalits, he said in the complaint. (INN)