Hyderabad, May 27: Police thrashed the contract employees of power utility services who were protesting for the redressal of their demands in front of Vidyut Soudha at Somajiguda.
Traffic on the Khairathabad-Punjagutta road came to halt for an hour.
Nearly 300 contract employees led by the United Electricity Employees Union of AP Transco staged a protest in front of the Vidyut Soudha demanding fulfillment of nearly 30,000 vacant posts with the contract employees and also a hike in their wages.
A scuffle ensued between Panjagutta police and the protestors.
The protestors reportedly tried to push away Punjagutta assistant commissioner of police J Subbarami Reddy.
Police took 290 of them into preventive custody and let them off later.
–Agencies