Warrangal, January 31: A TRS leader was Monday booked for allegedly slapping and swearing at a deputy commissioner of Warangal Municipal Corporation (WMC).
A case has been registered against TRS urban constituency in-charge A Vidyasagar under section 169 of Indian Penal Code after he reportedly slapped N Shankar during a ‘dial your commissioner’ programme. Vidyasagar swore at Shankar, who was conducting the programme in the absence of the commissioner, threw the grievance papers and slapped the deputy.
Thereafter, Shankar filed acomplaint at Mattewada police station charging the politician with obstructing him from the discharge of his duties and for swearing at him. Soon, WMC employees and other staff boycotted their duties and staged a dharna in front of the office demanding action against the TRS leader and his supporters.
Sources said Shankar tried to reason with the TRS leader but the latter lost his cool on some issue to do with land during the programme. Later, the TRS leader, too, lodged a complaint against Shankar charging him with having used abusive language against TRS ST cell president Bhukya Motilal.
Sources said that the land issue in question pertains to the issuance of notices to 32 families at Enumamula village in Warangal following a complaint from one Rama Yadagiri who has claimed that a part of the land in Enumamula belonged to his family members.
Members of the 32 families approached the TRS leader for justice and Vidyasagar approached Shankar for clarification in the matter.
–Agencies